Reconnectable X - improve desktop reliability

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:56 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote:

> > It would really help Fedora reliability if the desktop could survive X 
> > crashes. It would also allow the possibility of disconnecting an X session 
> > and reconnecting it later (I know vnc and nx allow this sort of thing).
> 
> Along the same line but perhaps more interesting than 'reconnectable' X
> would be 'reroutable' X, where you could redirect output from a local
> display to a projector (Star Trek: "On ViewScreen!"). This can be done
> with proxies or double-rendering, but it would be interesting to try it
> at the toolkit level.

Indeed, shiny new features of dubious usefulness that will probably
never be fully implemented are definitely more interesting than fixing a
long-standing problem that affects zillions of real people.

</sarcasm>
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