[Telepathy] Vino-telepathy for a single window?

Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu
Wed Aug 5 10:38:33 PDT 2009


Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 at 12:20:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>> So my question is: Do you think it would be possible, with the
>> Vino+telepathy codebase, to stop and start screen updates based on an
>> external signal, while allowing client-server interaction to continue?
> 
> I think this is entirely Vino and not at all Telepathy, to be honest :-)

Yeah, I just thought there might be someone here familiar with the code.

> I don't know anything about the internals of Vino, but I suspect it might not
> be significantly harder to "say what you mean" and have Vino spy on a
> particular window rather than the whole desktop (which would also make it
> much more useful outside Sugar).

I don't know much about Vino.  x11vnc can do this, but if another window
moves above the selected one, the server will happily transmit whatever's
on top.

--Ben

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