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

[slavik914 at mrbrklyn.com (Steve Milo)]

I'm not sure I understand the question here.

Do you want to move an application(thats not on a local machine) from a
remote machine to a local machine?

Steve M

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Wesley J Landaker wrote:

> 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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