Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-15 Thread Jim Gettys
This transfer of display is already implemented in the GTK tookit, though there are serious loose ends. There is a teleport application to signal a window to migrate. The loose ends are: o last I looked, while the window got moved, the toolkit retained an open connection to the original

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-13 Thread Harald Braumann
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:02:38 +0200 Matthieu Herrb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is an application (or maybe toolkit) level problem: handle the event that the X display connection is being closed better than by killing the application and allow it to reconnect to a new display later (through

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-13 Thread Glynn Clements
Harald Braumann wrote: It is an application (or maybe toolkit) level problem: handle the event that the X display connection is being closed better than by killing the application and allow it to reconnect to a new display later (through some communication protocol). But couldn't it

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread Prasad H.L.
This is what I have in mind. - Consider display :0 on machine 1 (m1) and display :0 on machine 2 (m2). - Let us say, a process 'p1' running under privileges of user 'u' opens a window on :0 of m1. - I do an 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in xterm on :0 of m2 and login to m1. - Now, from that xterm

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread Magnus Kessler
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Prasad H.L. wrote: This is what I have in mind. - Consider display :0 on machine 1 (m1) and display :0 on machine 2 (m2). - Let us say, a process 'p1' running under privileges of user 'u' opens a window on :0 of m1. - I do an 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in xterm on

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread David Greaves
Prasad H.L. wrote: This is what I have in mind. - Consider display :0 on machine 1 (m1) and display :0 on machine 2 (m2). Agreed, it's about time X supported changing the DISPLAY out from under an application. a follow-me type feature. http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1996/1273.html

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread Prasad H.L.
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, it's about time X supported changing the DISPLAY out from under an application. a follow-me type feature. http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1996/1273.html http://fixunix.com/xwindows/91803-xmove-ssh.html HTH I

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Magnus Kessler wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008, Prasad H.L. wrote: This is what I have in mind. - Consider display :0 on machine 1 (m1) and display :0 on machine 2 (m2). - Let us say, a process 'p1' running under privileges of user 'u' opens a window on :0 of

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread Glynn Clements
David Greaves wrote: - Consider display :0 on machine 1 (m1) and display :0 on machine 2 (m2). Agreed, it's about time X supported changing the DISPLAY out from under an application. a follow-me type feature. This is something which would be far easier to achieve at the toolkit level.

Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-10 Thread Prasad H.L.
I am active user of X.org and I admire the power and features that X.org provides to the users. I regularly use exported display over an ssh session and operate. I commend the developers for such a wonder piece of software. However, I would like to know one thing as described below. Consider a