On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
> vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm curious whether the functionality of xmove and
> > similar programs -- redirecting an X client to another
> > display -- can be reproduced without having something
> > like the xmove pseudoserver that intercepts the
> > state-creating operations.
> >
> > Is it possible instead to recover the state just before
> > redirection by querying the server and perhaps
> > rummaging through Xlib's data in the client?
> >
> > I picked a simple example, pixmaps, and could not find
> > a way to do this, but I'd love to hear otherwise.
>
> It really requires toolkit cooperation (and to a lesser
> extent app cooperation) ... we have it working currently in
> the development branch of GTK+.
>
> Without that, it's not even theoretically possible, because
> you don't know where the toolkit might/app have stored the
> ID referring to a window on the original display.
What about having per-connection Window ID translation table ?
This could be done entirely in Xlib..
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> Regards,
> Owen
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