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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Moving window from one display to another - how to?
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.233112.3500@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 23:31:12 GMT
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In article <CLINDH.90Aug31103445@sunrise.abalon.se>, clindh@sunrise.abalon.se
(Christer Lindh) writes:
|> Is it possible in X to switch display for a client/window?
|> Does the client
|> need special code for this or can a window manager handle it? 

The client has to do this.  The X protocol does not allow windows to be
moved from one display to another or even from one screen to another of
the same display.  You could write a client that copied an image from
one display to another, but, of course, only the original would be
interactive.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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