Egil Möller
Egil Möller
https://shifter-users.devloop.org.narkive.com/kOLeprGr/winswitch-xpra-docker-assistance-request
@BackOrder if you have time to experiment with criu+xpra it would be awesome!this I'll try getting it to run too! Once we have a simple example, I'll write a wrapper...
So Xpra is like screen, but for X. A bit like a Xvnc. You start an app under it, and then you can attach it to an X server, detach,...
I was thinking that to stop and restart an X app, you need to checkpoint it, but you can't checkpoint the X connection in any meaningful way (or any other...
Theoretically this should all be command line testing. However, it fails for me, saying that xpra even in detached mode has external connections: $ xpra start --start xterm $ pstree...
dmtcp on the other hand, segfaults on python processes. So that's kind of where I'm stuck with this..
criu inside docker is special according to some stuff I read somewhere... but let's ignore docker for the moment - if you can get criu to checkpoint xpra on your...
@BackOrder I assigned you on this one, as I was thinking that right now I won't poke at it, but maybe you will?
Xpra replaces VNC, not CRIU etc. It just lets you sort of bundle an X app with a Vnc like server, and provides a client that handles rootless windows (i.e....
Heyas @alexkh! So from what I can see, Xpra, NeatX and VNC all just basically implement detached processes for X. CRIU and DMTCP implements saving a process, or group of...