A year ago, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Ori and xorg list members, > > Ori, you told me last year about the project you were working on: xscreen, > a program similar in functionality to Gnu Screen, only for X > applications [1], done for Google Summer of Code. I am interested in > running Xscreen: I would like to try using it to prevent my > applications from aborting when I kill X (e.g. by accident[2].) I > also might like to try using it to share single applications, not > entire Xorg displays, between me and others. > > Ori, gitweb shows that you checked in lots of code to the orib-soc-2006 > branch of xorg [3], but that it was not merged into HEAD. Did you > manage to finish implementing xscreen? If not, what was finished, > what was not, and what would need to be done to get xscreen working? > > Xorg people: Do you think it's likely that you will resume development > of xscreen in the future, either by yourself or by finding more Summer > of Code students to work on it? ( I would not volunteer though. > ) Or is VNC good enough that it wouldn't be worth it to develop > xscreen further? > > Regards, > Jason Spiro > > [1] http://code.google.com/soc/2006/xorg/appinfo.html?csaid=73A89F18E7770493 > [2] Btw, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is a pet peeve of mine. See my feature > request https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10507 - > "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xorg". > [3] > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=shortlog;h=orib-soc-2006 >
There are two alternatives to xscreen. - xmove (unmaintained since 1997; see http://wikipedia.org/wiki/xmove for more info on what xmove does) - xpra But xscreen is not a good choice, because it isn't done. I spoke with Ori on MSN Messenger this April. He told me (I have edited his words slightly): "I don't think Xscreen will even compile. At the end of the summer I was working on Xscreen, a whole bunch of APIs it was depending on changed: both XCB's API and Xorg internals. And in general, I was inexperienced and clueless at the time: Xscreen still needs major cleanups. There are lots of issues with global resources, etc. that I'm not even sure how to approach now today. It's harder to write a _good_ X proxy than it looks. I'll make an announcement if I ever find time to pick it up again." -Jason _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
