[comp.windows.x] XTee: Viewing Client / Server Actvity

christia@carob.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) (12/15/90)

We are looking for a utility which can be used to view (not just monitor) the actvity 
between a client and a server on a second server. That is, a way to present the activty 
between a client application and a user on a server on a second server. The name XTee
comes to mind because this application would behave as a Tee connection in the
connection between the client and the server.  We have found a utility xwatchwin 
which almost does this, but it only snaps a picture of a window on a server. We 
have also found a utility xscope which does monitor the interaction between the client
/ server, but only prints an ascii log of those events. 

Thanks, Mike.
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Mike Christiansen
Superconducting Supercolider Laboratory
Dallas TX.
mchristia@carob.ssc.gov

jsb@cs.brown.edu (John Bazik) (12/18/90)

In article <CHRISTIA.90Dec15011128@carob.ssc.gov>, christia@carob.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) writes:
|> We are looking for a utility which can be used to view (not just monitor)
|> the actvity between a client and a server on a second server. That is, a
|> way to present the activty between a client application and a user on a
|> server on a second server. The name XTee comes to mind because this
|> application would behave as a Tee connection in the connection between
|> the client and the server.  We have found a utility xwatchwin which almost
|> does this, but it only snaps a picture of a window on a server. We have
|> also found a utility xscope which does monitor the interaction between the
|> client / server, but only prints an ascii log of those events. 

XMX, an X Protocol Multiplexor, does this.  It is a pseudo-server that
sends an output-only view of an X session to any number of X servers.

We use it for teaching in our workstation-equipped classroom.

XMX is available for anonymous ftp:

		host:	wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.31.66)
		file:	pub/xmx.tar.Z

John Bazik
jsb@cs.brown.edu