On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger.maill...@draxit.de> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:25:04 +0900 > Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> (...) >> Only instead, it kills your X server... :( > > Ouch... > > Well, using Vim (and I preferably in uxterm) one is kind of protected > from loosing changes by putting things into a screen session (but of > course all the other non-text-console programs will loose their stuff). > Seeing a lot of Emacs users using XEmacs or GNU Emacs in X mode that > obviously won't work. > > Which brings me to something I always wondered about: Why is there no X > pendant for screen (or I'm not aware of it)? I.e. some proxy X server, > opening an additional display passing through X transparently, keeping > record of prerequisite resources. And make this proxy de-/attachable. > So far I emulated such using Xvnc, but that means no HW acceleration, > no indirect GLX and such things. Of course such a thing boils down to > implementing an almost fully featured X server, so if I were to > implement such a thing, I'd probably start of kdrive/Xephyr.
There was a GSOC project to implement screen-like functionality for X a few years ago, but it ended up being a lot more complex than anyone thought at the beginning and thus was never completed. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
