[linux-help] Re: Advanced X-Windows Question

[Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know it'a very easy to run apps from one machine and have them display
on another. My question was to have an app which was already running
display and displaying locally to move to a remote desktop without
restarting the application. Supposedly this is possible from what I have
read, but it takes big time low level hacks to X because X was not
designed to allow this.

A good discussion I found talking about this issue is:

http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2003.05/msg00258.html

Now that it seems this would be rather difficult and maybe not worth the
effort, what I want to do is have a way to log into my remote X machine
and view all running applications in a window sorta like how Remote
Desktop works in Windows XP.

Jeremy

P.S. - I doubt I will be at the meeting this month because I live in KC
now.

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 02:45, Dustin Keib wrote:
> Actually, this is very possible.  I am currently typing this email on a 
> laptop 
> that is using a remote X connection to my main machine, using KDE from the 
> server.
> First, edit your .xinitrc file to not start any window manager,etc, and open 
> an xterm with the ssh command.  
> Here's an example of the relevent stuff from my .xinitrc...
> First, comment out whatever window manager you usually start.
> add the following in its place:
> 
> xterm -e ssh -X <hostname> startkde
> 
> or replace <startkde> with whatever window manager you usually use.
> 
> If you are just trying to run one program remotely, ssh to the server 
> machine, 
> with the -X switch, and run <program name> -display :0 (or whatever display 
> number it picks) and you should be good to go....
> 
> If these instructions are too archaic, I will talk to you on Monday about it 
> if you are going to be at the meeting...
> 
> Dustin
> 
> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:22 pm, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > This is not possible with standard X.
> >
> > I think there are some third-party applications that may make this sort of
> > thing possible.  One simple example of such a thing would be VNC.  I think
> > there may also be some programs written specifically to do this with X.  I
> > have no idea how well they work.  I'd look on freshmeat.
> >
> > -- Jonathan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeremy Johnstone" <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:53 PM
> > Subject: [linux-help] Advanced X-Windows Question
> >
> >
> > Well it may not be an advanced question, but I tend to think it is.
> > Anyway, here is my question:
> >
> > I have a program which is running on a remote machine. It is an X based
> > application. What I want to be able to do is switch the application from
> > displaying on the monitor of the remote machine to my local machine
> > without shutting down the application or restarting it. Of course I have
> > full SSH access to the remote machine, but I have no clue how to do
> > something like this. Any suggestions, comments, or places to look more
> > would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
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