After I summarized my original question about directing the graphics
output of an application (3rd party) to a particular workspace, I got
some further suggestions from Serguei Patchkovskii and Bevan Broun (who
suggested WindowMaker as an alternative to CDE).
My problem was that my application opened many windows during the
course of its run and I wanted to be able to direct them all to the
same workspace while I moved to another workspace. But the way CDE
works the new windows just appear in whichever workspace you happen
to be at the time.
Serge wrote:
> While, technically speaking, you've got the correct answer, it is not all
> there is to it. You can always create a _virtual_ X server, which will
> have it's own logical screen, and display your application on that X server.
> In this way, any windows your application pops up will appear in that X
> server as well. Then, you can connect to the logical X server with a client
> viewing program, which will display the contents of the logical screen
> on your terminal, and allow you to interact with your program.
>
> One product supporting this mode of operation is VNC, which has a great
> advantage of being free (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/). I am sure
> there are other solutions as well.
This approach would indeed solve my problem but I wanted to try it out
first. Therefore, the two week delay in this appended summary. In
short, the product Serge suggested works well. It can be installed on
various platforms including Windows and you can direct the output to the
virtual X server, close the window (viewer) and re-open it again
somewhere else with all the output that was generated until then. It is
more or less the X server equivalent of the screen program which is a
virtual terminal screen.
I didn't check into WindowMaker.
Regards,
Peter
Peter Stern
Chemical Physics Department
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
email: Peter.Stern_at_weizmann.ac.il
phone: 972-8-9342096
fax: 972-8-9344123
Received on Mon Dec 11 2000 - 14:57:02 NZDT