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New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys

Posted by michael on from the best-laid-plans dept.

A reader points to a roadmap on freedesktop.org that provides a good summary of what is out there for *nix desktops, with emphasis on X but also covering some other areas.

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  1. One cool thing in the roadmap... by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Low level xlib (ie, generic level) support for X session movement from machine to machine.

    This sounds a bit like screen implimented for X - you can take apps to work and back again without shutting them down, and keep apps running whilst restarting an X server. (With a bit of luck it will support echoing one app to mutliple windows as well.) It also allows for graceful app shutdown when an X server dies.

    Up until now I have been using VNC to do this, but adding it directly into xlib should make it a good deal less clunky. Way to go guys.

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