X11-proxy

[Daryl Tester]

Shawn Haggett wrote:

> Ok, so I did a google on this, but nothing is jumping out.

When I last looked into something similar, I think the magic
phrase was "disconnected X".  I saw some work being done by
(from memory) Jim Gettys (one of X Window's original authors),
and I thought I saw some patches to x2x, but going back
through my bookmarks show that I'm clearly delusional and
you shouldn't trust the electrons this post is composed of
(or a person who ends sentences with prepositions, with).

> I found a couple of places where people asked about this sort of thing,
> but no one ever mentioned if it had been done, or why it couldn't be
> done.

>From memory (which we've already seen is highly wonky) there's
a fair bit of state involved with an X session, so the proxy
would need to re-synchronise the server before resuming the
connection to the client.  I think there would be a fair bit
of peril if you reconnected with a different X server (screen
depth, geometry etc).

Having said that, it would be such a cool hack.

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Regards,
  Daryl Tester, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.