Re-attaching to GUI apps a la XP? (was Re: [plug] grabbing running apps)

[Ben Jensz]

You don't technically logout with XP, you lock the workstation which brings
you back to the login screen, but it notes that your user is still logged
in.  You can also login as another user whilst the user you locked the
workstation as is still logged in with whatever programs they have running
going.  This of course would be a drain on memory having two users logged in
with programs running.

I dunno whether this works when you've got your XP machine a member of a
domain or not, I'm using it without it being a member of a domain at the
moment, I've gotta do some reading first before I get Samba to play nicely
with XP..  or is that get XP to play nicely with Samba? :)


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian" <christian at amnet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: Re-attaching to GUI apps a la XP? (was Re: [plug] grabbing running
apps)


> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:45:36PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> > I don't know of a way to fully move it, but you can use 'screen' .. once
> > run, screen presents you a standard looking shell and whatever you run
in
> > it can be detached and resumed at will by the same user on any tty.  If
you
> > have a bad memory and forget to run processes via screen, setup and use
> > ttysnoop, which has lots of other nice voyeuristic features:
>
> I recently read about a feature in Windows XP that allows you to log in,
> run a GUI app, log out and have the app continue running in the
> background until the next time you log back in when you can continue
> using it.  Does anyone know if there are any plans to do this under
> Linux/X11?  Anyone with X11 programming experience suggest how it would
> be done?  Something in the window manager, perhaps?
>
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