Ideas for X improvement.

[Evgeny M. Zubok]

David Jackson <djackson452 at gmail.com> writes:

> The client wouldnt have to be moved between servers at all, it could
> be the same proxy server, the proxy server could then open up
> connections to actual X servers and forward things to the real X
> servers. The proxy would massage and rework data as necessary to trick
> the X client and hide the fact it is being displayed to many X servers
> and also keep the X servers in the dark about what is really going on
> as well. This requires no protocol changes and no changes to the
> clients or servers. There are already two or more codebases that this
> has already been done on, one is something called Xmux, the other was
> something called Xshare or something, and I am aware of a possible
> third that was called XTV. None are actively developed at this time.

Look also at NoMachine NX technology:

http://www.nomachine.com/documents/getting-started.php

There are free NX server implementaitions: FreeNX [1] and NeatX
[2]. Also look at the project x2go [3].

[1] http://freenx.berlios.de/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/neatx/
[3] http://www.x2go.org/