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

[peter at espen.net (Peter Espen)]

Exactly. 'screen' is to commandline shell sessions, what
VNC is to GUI sessions.

Peter
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jody Harris wrote:

> Great!  then it should be a piece of cake:
>
> telnet/ssh into machine...
>
> screen -R -D
>
> :-D
>
> I love screen!
>
> jody
>
> Peter Espen wrote:
> > This is essentially the same as asking:
> >
> > I have a telnet session established between machine A and machine B
> > and I would like to "unplug" the connection between A and B and
> > reestablish it, in place and unmodified, between machine A and machine C.
> >
> > Mechanisms like VNC, etc are going to be your only option here I think.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, 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.
> >>>>
> >
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