On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:45, Per Jessen wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 22 August 2005 20:12, Per Jessen wrote:
Does anyone know of software other than xmove that will enable a user to move his/her X-session from one terminal to another? (the apps would be running centrally, with thin client X-terminals). Has anyone worked with xmove?
I haven't seen xmove before, or any single program that does what you want. I have however seen the functionality embedded in the gtk-demo suite of programs. If you run gtk-demo you'll find a demo called "Change Display", that allows you to click on a window and move it to another X server (prtovided it's listening to connections, of course).
OK, that sounds interesting - although I'm after moving a whole X-sesion, i.e. all windows etc.
I know "roaming" works - I've seen it at Sun here in Zurich a couple of years ago. All Sun staff carried a personal chipcard, which they feed into whichever X-terminal is nearest, and voila! their X-session is transferred from wherever they were logged on previously.
Ahhh the Sun-Ray thin clients... I'm also impressed with these but... They are not real X-Windows clients, instead they are something closer to vnc thin-clients, as they only paint display buffers sent to them via a SUN proprietary protocol. The machines sun-rays cost about 100$ ea. but the client license for the sun proprietary server is another 100$ ea, even when running on linux (which I think they offer), plus cost of server, plus... I agree, something working similar to this would be a real great advantage, as most people really like the idea of carrying there entire system in a card from terminal to terminal... I got a doctor that would buy it in the same instant I offered it to him! But alas this example is not X-Windows.... Jerry
/Per Jessen, Zürich