On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:58 -0500, Brett Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been digging around on mailing lists about this, but haven't been
> able to come up with any good answers.
> 
> Essentially, I want to be able to start up evolution on my machine at
> work, go home, and then be able to ssh into my machine at work and have
> evolution come up on my X session at home.
> 
> What happens instead is, evolution will open up another evolution window
> on the initial display.
> 
> >From what I have read the same thing would happen if you started two X
> sessions as the same user on the machine locally as well. It seems to
> have something to do with oafd.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a work around for this? What exactly is the
> reason for why this doesn't work?

Originally it was bonobo, now the only real reason is that the camel
session does not get shared (I have a patch in my tree for this).  So if
you mark a message as "read" in a local mail box (ie POP) the view on
the other display does not get updated.  I'm not sure what other issues
might crop up either.

-JP
-- 
JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Novell, Inc.

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