xmove
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| Original author(s) | Ethan Solomita, Peter Skopp, Ari Shamash[1] |
|---|---|
| Final release | 2.0beta2
/ 14 November 1997[2] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | X Window System |
| Type | Terminal multiplexer |
| License | MIT/X Consortium License[3] |
| Website | None |
xmove is a computer program that allows the movement of X Window System applications between different displays and the persistence of X applications across X server restarts.[4] It solves a problem in the design of X, where an X client (an X application) is tied to the X server (X display) it was started on for its lifetime. Also, if the X server is shut down, the client application is forced to stop running.
xmove lets the client disconnect from its current X server, and connect to a new one, at any time. The transition is completely transparent to the client. xmove works by acting as a proxy between the client and server. It is a "pseudoserver" which stores enough server state so that clients can connect to a new server without being disrupted.
See also
- xpra — a more recent tool which is similar to xmove
- guievict — a system for checkpointing and migrating the GUI of an X window application
- the lbxproxy tool, which allows disconnecting and reconnecting
References
- ^ http://distcache.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/xmove-2.0b2_2.txz Archived 2019-03-27 at the Wayback Machine archive. man/man1/xmove.1 file. Lines 175-180.
- ^ "Index of /FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/". FreeBSD project download server. The FreeBSD Project. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
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- ^ Solomita, Ethan; Kempf, James; Duchamp, Dan (1994). "XMOVE: A pseudoserver for X window movement". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.30.589. Archived from the original (gzipped PostScript) on 1997-07-24.
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External links
- Xmove, IMproved (XIMove) — by Mark C. Ballew
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