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XMOVE - A Pseudoserver For X Window Movement (1994)
| Venue: | The X Resource |
| Citations: | 21 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Solomita94xmove-,
author = {Ethan Solomita and James Kempf and Dan Duchamp},
title = {XMOVE - A Pseudoserver For X Window Movement},
journal = {The X Resource},
year = {1994},
volume = {11},
pages = {143--170}
}
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Abstract
We describe the design and implementation of xmove, a tool that supports the movement of an application's X11 interface from one X server to another. xmove is implemented as a pseudoserver. A pseudoserver is a program interposed between client and server that looks like a server to the client and looks like a client to the server. The xmove pseudoserver operates by spying on all X protocol messages and retaining any information needed to move a client from one server to another. Compared to other pseudoservers that provide similar functionality, xmove has several advantages: an interface to provide application-specific mapping of properties and selections from server to server; superior, though limited, handling of color; a heuristic means of detecting and handling applications XXXX Ethan Solomita (ethan@cs.columbia.edu) received a B.S. in computer science from Columbia University and is currently pursuing his M.S. at Columbia University as a graduate research assistant to Dan Duchamp...
