On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:29:24 -0400
JF Mezei <[email protected]> wrote:

> And in terms of "keep alive" a connection, there would be a difference
> between an idle xterm with no activity ... and an active app with
> say a clock display 
> 
> There may not be a solution to solve all problems, but ability to keep
> xterms and other idle apps/connections "alive" while the X
> terminal/server is asleep would be welcome.

To be clear, setting the X11 timeout in ssh does allow idle connections
to stay up.  

WR Stevens said that "keep alive" is more properly called "make dead",
because an idle connection can tolerate transient losses of
connectivity, whereas failure to hear a heartbeat from the remote leads
to disconnection, even while there was no need to communicate.  

--jkl
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