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[NMLUG] Re-displaying running apps on remote machine?
HAH!
Actually, it would be "sweet," not "sweat!"
jody
Jody Harris wrote:
> I thought it was pretty clear....
>
> I have an app running on local display 0 on host Desktop. Later, I
> establish an ssh connection to Desktop from Laptop, but I need to use
> the application, which is already running. It would be most helpful to
> continue the existing session.
>
> How do I (if it is possible) move the app from display 0 on Desktop's X
> session to the forwarded X session on Laptop?
>
> This would be sweat. VPN is nice, but running the app alone on my
> desktop through X forwarding is better because it doesn't bring along
> the baggage of copying the whole desktop. It also allows things like
> copy/past from my desktop, and not having to switch between local and
> remote desktops.
>
> jody
>
> Steve Milo wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
>>> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
>>>
>>>
>>
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