Transfer display of active windows remotely

[Harald Braumann]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:02:38 +0200
Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr> wrote:

> It is an application (or maybe toolkit) level problem: handle the
> event that the X display connection is being closed better than by
> killing the application and allow it to reconnect to a new display
> later (through some communication protocol).

But couldn't it be done on Xlib level? Then it would work immediately
for all apps. On the Xlib-level some mapping would have to be done
(Atoms, XIDs, ...). And both servers would have to provide the same
extensions and visuals (at least those, that are used by the app). The
case when some of those are missing on the target server would still
have to be handled by the toolkit.

Waiting for all the toolkits to implement X roaming (there's not only
GTK and Qt), will probably exceed the time the universe has left.

Cheers,
harry
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