{"id":85,"date":"2007-11-08T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2007\/11\/08\/screen-but-for-x\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:53:36","slug":"screen-but-for-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"screen&#8230; but for x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure most Linux sys admins are familair with <a href=\"http:\/\/gnu.org\/software\/screen\/\" title=\"opens in new window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screen<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s a virtual terminal multiplexer that allows single logins to be &#8216;detached&#8217;, then resumed later. This is fantastic because it means what you&#8217;re doing can survive connection failures, you can share it with other users, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Windows has a similar tool called &#8216;Remote Desktop&#8217;, which runs on the RDP standard.<\/p>\n<p>I would *<strong>LOVE<\/strong>* to have the same functionality available in Linux: be able to remote into an X session, picking up its last state (presuming that user had already been logged-in), or to be able to launch a new session, then disconnect later, and pick it up again whenever I want to in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how hard that may be to implement, but it would rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure most Linux sys admins are familair with screen &#8211; it&#8217;s a virtual terminal multiplexer that allows single logins to be &#8216;detached&#8217;, then resumed later. This is fantastic because it means what you&#8217;re doing can survive connection failures, you can share it with other users, etc. Windows has a similar tool called &#8216;Remote Desktop&#8217;, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=85\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">screen&#8230; but for x<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}