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