[TriLUG] Screen for X?

[Benjamin Reed]

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Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Owen Berry wrote:
> | A couple of weeks ago there was a discussion on the list about the
> | extremely useful screen program. Has anybody come across anything
> | similar for X apps? It would be really useful to start up a GUI app,
> | disconnect from it and then resurrect it again later, possibly even on a
> | separate display.
>
> Look for something called Rat Poison.  I think Ben Reed runs it,
> so you might ask him.

Ratpoison is a window manager that has behavior like screen as far as
task-switching, but provides no actual virtualization of X programs,
it's just a window manager like any other.

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