killer feature for XOrg.

[Roland Mainz]

somekool at gmail.com 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 ?

You may want to wait for a public release of David Flynn's "xproxy"
which allows such stuff.
Otherwise you are bound to support for such a feature at the toolkit
level which may allow the transition of one application between
Xservers.

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Bye,
Roland

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