[lug] X11 Protocol, migrating windows to remote displays

D. Stimits stimits at attbi.com
Mon May 19 16:19:32 MDT 2003


Zan Lynx wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 17:01, D. Stimits wrote:
>
> >Does anyone here know the X11 protocol well enough to say how easy it
> >would be to write an app (or modify xterm/konsole/gnome-terminal) to
> >allow migrating an X11 terminal to a remote display *after* the app has
> >started? I have an integrated app that I want to run entirely on one
> >machine, but I want the multiple windows it produces to be able to
> >migrate to/from a remote display. If I set $DISPLAY ahead of time, the
> >entire app goes to the remote display; even if I wanted that, it would
> >not allow me to migrate the window back to the original machine at a
> >later time. I'd like to be able to take an ID from a visible window or
> >widget, and tell X11 to redisplay on some other machine.
> >
> >D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com
>
>
> Here's a Debian package link to xmove, which does what I think you
> want.  Google around for other versions.  I looked for a source site,
> but nothing jumped out at me.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xmove.html

Yes! I think this might be it, I'm looking into it further.

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com




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