Moving applications between sessions

[Derek Broughton]

Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
> 
>> At any given time, I usually have two KDE sessions running (as the
>> same user).  One on my laptop display and one via NX.  The NX one will
>> be suspended if I'm not at work, and the laptop will be in my desk if
>> I am. Sometimes, I'll find that an application that I want to run is
>> already running in the other session and won't let me run multiple
>> copies (eg, firefox & kontact).  Is there a way to grab the
>> application from display 0 and put it on display N?
> 
> Short answer, no.  Long answer, mostly no.

Thanks.  I didn't really require the technical answer, but it was
interesting.

> You can also use a "proxy" model: one where an application sits
> between your X server and your X clients.  If that proxy supports moving
> applications from one display to another then this can work.
> 
> That means the proxy needs to support every extension that the client
> uses, though, and the complexity of that has meant that they actually
> support only the very basic X protocol -- and, so, not much of what
> recent clients actually want.

Actually, as I understand it, I really should be able to at least work this
in one direction by using the nxviewer from my DISPLAY :0 to connect to the
suspended NX session, but I haven't figured that part out.
-- 
derek