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From: bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Moving window from one display to another - how to?
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Date: 3 Sep 90 00:11:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com's message of 31 Aug 90 23:31:12 GMT

In article <1990Aug31.233112.3500@wrl.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
   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.

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	A kludgy way that I've been using is this:
	xgrabsc -W | xwud -display <whatever> &

	This'll let you copy the screen section, and bring it up
as a window on the other display.

	xgrabsc came across comp.sources.x a few weeks ago, if I
remember correctly.

   Ken Lee
   DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
   Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
   uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee

	-rj
	bagchi@eecs.umich.edu