Xpra Client Daemon

Daemon that continously tries to connect to configured xpra servers. It is intended to be run as unpriovileged user.

Installation

Simply download the script and make it an executable file.

BIN_DIR=~/bin # change this if you want
mkdir -p $BIN_DIR
wget https://github.com/muroc/xpra-client-daemon/raw/master/xpra-client \
  -O $BIN_DIR/xpra-client
wget https://github.com/muroc/xpra-client-daemon/raw/master/xpra-client \
  -O $BIN_DIR/xpra-client-daemon
chmod +x $BIN_DIR/xpra-client*

If BIN_DIR is no on the PATH, modify PATH in rc file of your shell.

RC_FILE=~/.bashrc # change if you are not using bash
echo "PATH=$BIN_DIR:$PATH" >> $RC_FILE
. $RC_FILE

Configuration

Each xpra server needs a directory at location ~/.xpra/client-daemon/${SERVER_NAME}. If directory is present, it means that server is configured.

Usage

The basics

Currently, only tcp xpra servers that listen at port 8080 are supported (address configurability is planned).

xpra-client-daemon start # starts client daemons for all configured servers
xpra-client-daemon stop # stops client daemons for all configured servers
xpra-client-daemon status # prints status info for all client daemons
xpra-client-daemon usage # prints usage information

Script xpra-client connects to xpra server just once in foreground (no daemon behaviour).

xpra-client browser # connects to xpra server at tcp:browser:8080

Contribution

Pull requests are very welcome.

TODO

• configurable address of xpra server in ~/.xpra/client-daemon/${SERVER_NAME}/config
• single-server daemon operations (e.g. xpra-client-daemon browser start)
• Background section before Installation in README.md
• gif-animated usage at the top of README.md file