Re: Multi-sessioning for GNOME [revisited]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys) writes:
> On this front, the other item people should be seriously thinking about
> is the ability to shift sessions from one X server to the other.
> 
> Since applications almost always are being built via toolkits that
> (finally) include image rendering, the concept of moving from one
> X server to another becomes much more tractible (given Motif's lack
> of either a canvas widget or of anything for putting images on the screen,
> this was really tough in the past).  Typically, toolkits have most
> of the mechanism already in their map/unmap facilities.
> 
> Most of this work would be in GTK and related libraries: if people
> don't start seriously thinking about it, we'll just have to do it in Xt/Xaw
> to embarrass people (though the fraction of mobile applications will be
> relatively smaller).
> 
> I think we really all want to be able to move running applications,
> and the time is now...
> 

This is easy in GTK, especially once we have multiple display
support. You just unrealize the widget, and re-realize it on another
display. Some people at Sun are working on the multiple display
support.

Havoc