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From: iansmith@dali.gatech.edu (Ian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.groupware,comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Real time window sharing in X
Keywords: virtual x shared windows clarification
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Date: 12 Mar 91 18:04:52 GMT
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In article <2422@otc.otca.oz>, gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane) writes:
|> Currently there are a number of systems available that allow several people
|> using networked X Window System workstations to share application windows.
[stuff deleted]
|> Also, if the authors are listening, perhaps you could put
|> in your threepence worth as well.

Well, I think your article pretty much summed up the work that I
know of... With the possible exception of special purpose systems
for other window systems (ie, commune, timbuktu, carbon copy, etc).
However, when you put down our project here at SRC Multimedia, you put:

|> ???			iansmith@warhol.gatech.edu
|> 

and it should be:
|> Virtual X            iansmith@warhol.cc.gatech.edu  (ugh!)

Anyway, in response to the mail that I have been getting, the system 
will permit multi-user interaction via a 'Virtual Root Window' concept
that we are working on.   It is scheduled to be operational by July, 
and if it isn't then I would say its my butt...

In response to questions concerning what types of 'multimedia' the thing
supports, it doesn't make any assumptions.  If you can send video 
'over the wire' like we do here, it'll work, but it doesn't support
anything other than the core 11R4 protocol.  Perhaps supporting extensions
to the protocol (such as vex, audio, image processing, phigs, etc) could
be fun, but I'm not sure that is really a good idea...

Credit where credit is due:
The person doing the human factors work on this baby is Beth Bumgardener
of SRC Multimedia; I am just the technoid doing the X hacking.

later,
ian

--
"Daddy what's regret?"
"Well son, all I can say is its always better to regret something you have
done, than to regret something you haven't done. And, if you see your
mother this afternoon..."  --Gibby