X11 application mobility funs

Ever wanted to have an X11 application’s GUI follow you around between various machines while the app continues to run? Believe it or not, I have wanted this. Recently I found a little app that lets you do this called xmove. It’s rather old, but… new to me, and cool enough to document; including a narrated video walkthrough [QuickTime 7, 56 MB] of xmove in action.

Now if we could just do this with OS X apps, that’d be fly…

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