Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:50:31 +0000 (GMT) From: "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Redirection of processes and of X clients Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903131433550.257-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
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Hi! I have two questions which are slightly related. Firstly, is it possible to change the terminal a program is attached to while it is running? For example, if I am running talk, is it possible to move the program from ttyp2 to ttyv1 on the same machine (e.g. prior to shutting X down if I don't want to lose the connection)? I don't know how this might be achieved, but I know that if you have a program in the background, kill -SIGCONT pid will make it run in the foreground (in some sense). However, I don't see how to apply this in the case where a program is attached to a terminal. Secondly, I would like to know if the "equivalent" for X is possible, namely, if I am running a program in a window on an X server (e.g. bjc23:0) can I move it to another X server while it is still running (e.g. bjc23:1 or remotesite:0)? This would be handy if I left something running on my machine and want to access it. (VNC can do this, presumably, but it would be nice if it could be done with X alone.) -------- In the first case, I can sometimes use the watch utility (with the -W option), but this doesn't work in the example of keeping talk open if I shut X down. Also, watch doesn't handle ^Z properly and ^X isn't then usable. In the second case, I saw a utility mentioned in the mailing list archives, ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/xwatchwin.tar.Z, but I can't get it to compile. I don't know if it allows write access (like watch -W) and it would leave the window open on the other X server, which isn't perfect. -------- Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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