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You could use this, to launch a remote browser or something, saw it in this article a while ago: http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-ov...

FWIW, if that's all you want you can do it with plain old X11.

Yes, X11 itself can display over a network. But it's quite painful over an even somewhat slow link.

Depends what you're doing. I found it usable for many things more than a decade ago...

with no way to detach/reattach or deal with disconnection reasonably