[Bug 157354] reconnect to x-server - feature

[Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K)]

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------- Additional Comments From estellnb yahoo de  2008-02-08 11:12 -------
  Basically I have thought about it as a whole new feature, enabling to send a running application between different either remote or collocated computers either for the purpose of cooperation, for administrative tasks or simply to change the workplace (apart from the many little other advantages). If it is possible to migrate running applications between different physical machines, why should it not be possible just to change the display, they are attached to?
  The stability issue will just be a pleasurable side effect. Even the best Xorg-server can panic if the video card driver goes wrong (which is currently not unusual for the most popular drivers). Besides this people who use a port of Xorg to other operating systems will also be glad about such a client side solution, because these ports are imperfect and some of them still use to crash regularly (if they are not broken at all).
  I do personally think about the sensitivity of X-clients as a major design flaw of X-Windows, which can not simply be overcome by better and more stable implementations of X-servers (client-server role uses to be the other way round because of that for comparable commercial systems). Nevertheless this apparent flaw could be turned into a considerable advantage greatly enhancing flexibility if X-client-frameworks like qt/kde supported such a reconnection mechanism.