Bob-

This is actually more of a question for the display manager that you use
than it is for LTSP.  A straight X connection is stateless, and
therefore lacks the capability to do session migration (ala Windows
Terminal Services).  BUT, X is also modular and powerful, which means
that it can be made to do such things if done intelligently.  One
feature of X is the ability to have an "X proxy", which is an Xserver
that would run on the server that the applications would talk to and
which would save state.  Then, the X proxy would connect to the thin
client's Xserver rather than the applications connecting to the Xserver
directly.  This would free the thin client's Xserver to
connect/disconnect to the Xproxy and the Xproxy always save a cached
state.

The latest GDM (2.8) has some experimental code in it to do such a
thing, using an X proxy such as XDMX or nxagent.  Likewise, the NX
client has this capability built in.

It certainly would be a neat feature and one of the few enviable
features of M$ WTS.

Perhaps if someone gets it going, s/he can post something to the wiki?

-Gadi 

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:18 -0500, bob wrote:
> I've started testing 4.2 and so far it works great! Great job -- you
> know who you are.
> 
> I've seen recent and past threads talking about logging in from more
> than one terminal. I use to do this but now I kill a user's processes
> when he/she logs in and out. This solved some problems I was having
> but creates new ones too.
> 
> With 4.2 just rolling out, this may not be the best time to talk about
> new features but... What would be involved in allowing a session to
> move to a different terminal when a user logs in somewhere else?
> 
> bob
> 
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