Re: Disconnecting emacs from X display

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From: P. Srinivas
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:00

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Andreas Schwab (schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
: P Srinivas writes:

: |> I would love to see such a feature in Emacs where I can keep the
: |> Emacs process just suspended (without killing it) and detach it from
: |> any X server and/or terminals. Then attatch it after I login into
: |> another terminal.

: The screen program does this (for text terminals).  See
: screen-3.7.1.tar.gz on your friendly GNU archive.


But the screen program does not work if the running process is
X based. I tried it but any X process running will not be
kept when you disconnect.

Srini
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