What’s Next?

You’ve learned about some excellent sharing technologies in this chapter, but you’ve also learned about a new technique for pairing. Full-screen sharing is an essential tool when you’re working from a remote location, because it can solve many collaboration problems that terminal-based tools like tmux can’t handle. But many other tools, besides VNC and NX, facilitate screen sharing. Depending on your environment, you may want to try these:

Xpra[70]

A free and open source application that allows you to run X Windows programs on a remote host and direct their display to your local machine.

Neatx[71]

An open source NX server that is similar to the commercial NX server from NoMachine. It was originally developed by Google and was ...

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