Re: `screen`ing an x-app

[Richard Hector <rhector@actrix.gen.nz>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> 
> hi there,
> any chance you guys know of a way to `screen` an x-app? i.e. run xcalc
> and detach it from the screen while keeping it running, and possibly
> allowing it to be pulled up again on some other machine, or during a
> later session?

I don't know about an individual app, but I understand vnc will let you
detach a whole X session, and resume later somewhere else. I don't know
whether you'd normally use it to the same machine, but I don't see why
not.

I've never tried it.

Richard