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

[William Kenworthy]

vnc - I run gui apps and then kill the client at home when I go to work
- the server is left running.  When I get to work, I run the client and
(secure tunnel) to my home machine and on connection, the whole desktop
is as I left it (except for changes due to the running apps of course). 
If your bandwidth can stand it, you can run kde etc and even run more
than one server for multiple desktops.  Top that XP!

I also saw a "proxy X server" that could do something similar, but vnc
is a lot more flexible.

BillK

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:25, Christian wrote:
> 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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