I recently needed to run a GUI application on a remote, headless Linux server. I went down the usual road of trying to get X11 forwarding to work and met the usual slew of errors. Then I found Xpra. Save yourself the pain and go straight to Xpra if you need to display an application on your laptop that is running on a remote Linux system. What Does Xpra Do? Xpra allows you to run a program that has a GUI output on a remote Linux server. This means that they program is running remotely but the...
