[TriLUG] Screen for X?

[Owen Berry]

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm going to take a look at some of those
suggestions and report back as to what worked best, for the edification
of all those reading the list.

-- Owen

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:06, Jon Carnes wrote:
> As a further exploration... I thought there was a setting in Xserver
> config that defaults to not allowing another session to access an
> already running window, *but* you could unset that and then attach
> specifying an already running session.
> 
> If you can do that, then you should be able to access a running session
> from anywhere, as long as you can get an x-connection.
> 
> So am I simply deluded, or is this possible?
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 20:54, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > Well, with screen for terminals you still have to start the application
> > inside of screen.  You can't "move" a running application from a
> > non-screen tty to inside of screen.  The same generally applies to X
> > (notwithstanding the "xmove" program mentioned.)  So you can just use VNC
> > all the time, and you'll have the effect you need.  When you're logged on
> > locally, just connect to your own computer with the VNC client -- slightly
> > roundabout, but it will work nicely.
> > 
> > --Jeremy
> >