killer feature for XOrg.

[Glynn Clements]

somekool at gmail.com wrote:

> there is something I always wish xfree would do but never did, and I feel now 
> with XOrg, its possible. I would like every X Client (window) to be 
> detachable likes the command line utility screen and then I would like to be 
> able to kill my X server, reattach the client whenever I want on whatever X 
> server I want, even remote X.
> 
> so we could have window manager offering to the user "Send this window to ..." 
> and you could send a window to your friend running a X server too...
> 
> in fact, it would detach the window and reattach it somewhere else.
> 
> what do you guys think ?

It isn't realistic to implement this at the X protocol or Xlib levels. 
Too many things would need to be changed that it wouldn't really be X
any more (i.e. you're talking about The Y Window System, not X12 and
certainly not X11R<something>).

More viable solutions are:

1. A toolkit which could reconstruct widget trees from scratch as
required.

2. A proxy X server.

Regarding #2, you can already do essentially what you are suggesting
to entire sessions using Xvnc. Doing it on a per-window basis would
bring up some interesting issues with relationships between windows
which were on different physical servers.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>