several years later, you guys heard or XPRA ? https://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra
On April 18, 2005 02:03:25 AM Glynn Clements wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > there is something I always wish xfree would do but never did, and I feel > > now with XOrg, its possible. I would like every X Client (window) to be > > detachable likes the command line utility screen and then I would like to > > be able to kill my X server, reattach the client whenever I want on > > whatever X server I want, even remote X. > > > > so we could have window manager offering to the user "Send this window to > > ..." and you could send a window to your friend running a X server too... > > > > in fact, it would detach the window and reattach it somewhere else. > > > > what do you guys think ? > > It isn't realistic to implement this at the X protocol or Xlib levels. > Too many things would need to be changed that it wouldn't really be X > any more (i.e. you're talking about The Y Window System, not X12 and > certainly not X11R<something>). > > More viable solutions are: > > 1. A toolkit which could reconstruct widget trees from scratch as > required. > > 2. A proxy X server. > > Regarding #2, you can already do essentially what you are suggesting > to entire sessions using Xvnc. Doing it on a per-window basis would > bring up some interesting issues with relationships between windows > which were on different physical servers. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
