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I want to be able to detach a gui-window for a program like gvim.

I ssh into the remote machine, and launch 'screen':

screen

I'll then just launch "gvim" in this screen session. However, I cannot do a ctrl+a+d on the gvim, and when I kill the console from which the gvim was launched, it also kills the gvim window. When I reconnect to the screen session with 'screen -r' I see:

 X connection to serverNum:104.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Vadim Kotov
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You can't detach X apps with screen. It's for terminal programs only.

Use something like xmove, vncserver, FreeNX or Chrome Remote Desktop.

that other guy
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