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Get xpra to work on Ubuntu 14.04

Xpra is like screen or tmux for X apps.  There is a commercial app called Exceed on Demand and xpra seems to work very similarly to that.  Xpra is a very nice alternative to VNC and performs a lot better than forwarding X over ssh.  Here's how I got it to work using Ubuntu 14.04 as a server and windoze (is that joke getting old yet?) as a client.  Xpra says you can run Mac and Linux clients as well, but I haven't tried that yet. To get it installed and running, dig down from the main Xpra site to the trusty download area, or just click here for 64-bit .  Download the highest version numbered python-rencode and xpra packages there, then do this on your command line: sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/python-rencode_1.0.3-1_amd64.deb sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-opengl python-lzo python-appindicator python-gtkglext1 xvfb sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/xpra_0.15.10-1_amd64.deb When you try to install either .deb package it might report other dependencies that are missing. Just