[lug] X11 Protocol, migrating windows to remote displays

[Zan Lynx]

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
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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