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 window, is there any way by which I can make that window of process 'p1' appear on :0 of m2.
This kind of situation regularly occurs to me and some of my friends. We have multiple terminals at our disposal. On one terminal, I start some xterm which is, let us say, showing output of some process. I go to some other department in the institute and do an ssh to that terminal. Now, I have no way of seeing what is going on in that xterm. Well, this is a simple example, of course. Another example (though childish). Consider a case where I have a browser window with many tabs open in it, the window being displayed on :0 of m1. I would like to export it to :0 of m2 when I go and sit in front of m2. Before closing ssh on m2, I re-export the window back to :0 of m1 and then quit the ssh. Such a feature would be really great to have. Since, any way, currently the only dependency on the remote machine is that it should have an X server running, I believe this feature should be implementable if not already present. With Regards, Prasad H. L. --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Pat Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prasad, > > Your question is very interesting, could you draw a picture > for me of what you want to do? > > Pat > --- > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Prasad H.L. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 case where a window has been opened on the > local terminal with some user id. After performing a remote > login to and exporting the display to that machine using the > same user id, is there any way by which the display of that > opened window can be transferred to the remote exported > display and vice versa? If not possible, then please > consider this as a feature request. > > > > With Regards, > > Prasad H. L. > > > > --- > > Prasad H. L. > > PhD Student (with Dr. Shalabh Bhatnagar), > > Department of Computer Science and Automation, > > Indian Institute of Science, > > Bangalore - 560012 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xorg mailing list > > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
