[NMLUG] Re-displaying running apps on remote machine?

[wjl at icecavern.net (Wesley J Landaker)]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 4:48 pm, mattg wrote:
> Is it possible to "move" an app that's currently displayed on a
> remote machine to my local X session? I can open it here remotely if
> it's not already running but is it possible to detach it from the X
> it's already running in and attach it to my local window?

Unfortunately, I don't believe that this is possible. Some applications 
support doing this, but there isn't anything that I know if in X itself 
that would allow changing the display on the fly for an arbitrary app. 
(If somebody can show me I'm wrong, I would be overjoyed, as I'd like 
to be able to do this occasionally myself!)

One good tools available to help you with this, is x0rfbserver (package 
"rfb" in Debian); it attaches to a running X-server and makes it into a 
VNC server. I often use this when I have to get to an X-server that is 
already running to close a window so I can open it somewhere else or 
something like that.

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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