Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekcrl!brucec From: brucec@phoebus.phoebus.labs.tek.com (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: shared windows? Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 18:37:13 GMT References: <1990Aug4.145827.7722@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix Inc. Lines: 26 In-reply-to: wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU's message of 4 Aug 90 14:58:27 GMT In article <1990Aug4.145827.7722@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) writes: > 1. Is it possible to have a workstation at a remote site that displays > multiple windows controlled by a program at the central site? > > 2. Is it possible to have one or more of those windows be shared among > two or more remote workstations? Yes, both are possible with the X window system, since one of the goals of the X design was network (in general, communication path) transparency. To see a demo of this sort of thing, try out wscrawl, a program which was posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.x a few months ago, and is available from the usual archives via anonymous ftp (I got it from uunet.uu.net). Wscrawl allows multiple users on multiple workstations (any one of which or none of which might be the computer running the program) to share a window in which they all can draw and type text. When one user resizes the window, it gets resized for all. Etc. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: USE THIS ADDRESS TO REPLY, REPLY_TO IN HEADER IS BROKEN! Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekcrl.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077