On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:30:09PM -0500, Jared Burns wrote: > Is it possible to connect to a pre-existing window on a remote X server? > > If I have my mail program running on my desktop and I go to a machine > down the hall, is there any way to display the pre-existing window? No. You have to install VNC-server, a modified X server, and use the XVNC client. Since you haven't done this, there is no way for you to get your X11 display from a local machine. Now, if you were a "k001 h4X0R"... ahem. If you use a console-based email client, as in mutt, pine, elm, nmh, or even emacs w/some funky elisp mailmode, AND if you were running screen[1], you could power-detach the screen instance from your workstation's display and reattach it to your ssh/telnet instance to that machine. The key to this solution is running screen. Once you try it, you'll never go back. References ---------- 1. http://www.gnu.org/directory/screen.html -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020606/528ca305/attachment.pgp