[lug] X11 Protocol, migrating windows to remote displays

[D. Stimits]

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