The Teleporting System

Introduction

An alternative approach to mobile computing is one in which application interfaces, rather than the computer on which the applications run, are able to move. The Teleporting System is a tool for experiencing such `mobile applications'. It operates within the X Window System, and allows users to interact with their existing X applications at any X display. This `teleporting' is achieved by a `proxy X server' which is able to dynamically re-route the input and output of a set of X applications to any X display.

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More Information

You can read about the Teleporting system in more detail in the papers Teleporting - Making Applications Mobile and Teleporting in an X Window System Environment. These are part of our on-line library of technical reports and papers. There is also a video which demonstrates the system, and an MPEG, subtitled copy is available from our movies page.

Try out the Teleporting System yourself

The Teleporting System has been made publically available by ORL. Binary and Source distributions can be obtained - both are only available to academic institutions, and are subject to licence.

The binary distribution of the Teleporting System can be retrieved via the World Wide Web. Read here for more details.

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