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[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Maksim Orlovich wrote:
> >> That's basically impossible for a properly written X application w/o
> >> wasting tons of memory.
> >
> > To reconnect, or to make X bloat like that?
>
> Reconnect, since most of data will be stored in pixmaps, so there is no
> transparent way of recovering them unless you mirror them on the client,
> which can easily double memory usage. All the other state will have to be
> mirrored likewise.

Isn't most of an application drawing directly using QPainter (widgets) or 
available as image data (icons)?

Holger Freyther demoed a GTK application (IIRC) on Akademy 2006 which could 
reconnect/migrate to a different X server during runtime and even change how 
it represented itself.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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