xmove

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| author = Ethan Solomita, Peter Skopp, Ari Shamashhttp://distcache.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/xmove-2.0b2_2.txz {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327173008/http://distcache.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/xmove-2.0b2_2.txz |date=2019-03-27 }} archive. man/man1/xmove.1 file. Lines 175-180.

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| programming language = C

| operating_system = X Window System

| genre = Terminal multiplexer

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xmove is a computer program that allows the movement of X Window System applications between different displays and the persistence of X applications across X server restarts.{{cite journal | url = https://www.cs.columbia.edu/mcl/papers/xmove.ps.gz | format = gzipped PostScript | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19970724010922/https://www.cs.columbia.edu/mcl/papers/xmove.ps.gz | archive-date = 1997-07-24 | first1 = Ethan | last1 = Solomita | first2 = James | last2 = Kempf | first3 = Dan | last3 = Duchamp | year = 1994 | title = XMOVE: A pseudoserver for X window movement | citeseerx = 10.1.1.30.589 }} It solves a problem in the design of X, where an X client (an X application) is tied to the X server (X display) it was started on for its lifetime. Also, if the X server is shut down, the client application is forced to stop running.

xmove lets the client disconnect from its current X server, and connect to a new one, at any time. The transition is completely transparent to the client. xmove works by acting as a proxy between the client and server. It is a "pseudoserver" which stores enough server state so that clients can connect to a new server without being disrupted.