I'm familiar with screen and VNC. I was just wondering if there was some way to do it with the x server alone. Thanks, - Jared On Thursday 06 June 2002 01:56 pm, you wrote: > 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