Sharing windows between Xservers

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bblount · Post by **bblount** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:11 am

I have freeNX running on a remote desktop that I also use locally. I'm wondering if there is a way to have certain windows 'shared' between X displays. What I mean by shared is the application appears on both displays and accepts input from both.

Alternatively if freenx somehow was able to open my main local session and share that out remotely that would work also.

Does anyone have any idea how I could accomplish this?

mahdi1234 · Post by **mahdi1234** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:46 am

I was looking into this in the past and there was supposedly a way how to tunel vnc thru nx i.e. you would use vnc to connect to current X session but with all advantages of NX and using NX client only.

I have however never succeeded in this and using vnc until now - (as I rarely need to connect it's sufficient, but I agree NX is unbeatable when it comes to smoothness of GUI reactions)

cheers ...

bblount · Post by **bblount** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:50 am

Very interesting, I'd be interested in any info you had on that. I'm not sure if VNC over NX would still keep the NX advantages, since NX is compression for the X protocol itself (as I understand at least).