Here is a list of some of the limitations of xmove that
you should be aware of. They are explained in the context of the
X protocol. Feel free to ask for more detailed explanations in
English.

	For a detailed discussion of xmove and its
implementation, see The X Resource, July 1994. It covers xmove
through alpha versions of xmove 1.1.

* A client started on a 1-bit monochrome display can only be moved to
other 1-bit monochrome displays. Unfortunately, display
dependencies in the X protocol make this a difficult limitation
to overcome cleanly.

* Clients which start on a server with a read/write colormap, and
which are then moved to a server with a read-only colormap, will
be unable to modify colors they previously thought they could
change. So long as the client does not become alarmed (IslandDraw
did not, for example) the client will appear correctly once moved
back to a server with a read/write colormap.

* Clients which start on a server with a grey-scale read-only
colormap (StaticGray), or a 16/24 bit read-only display
(TrueColor), can only be moved to similar displays.

* Overlay planes are not supported. Overlay planes are rarely
used in standard applications, and would be difficult to support.

* xmove does not adjust for different screen sizes and aspect
ratios. A pixel is a pixel is a pixel.

* X protocol extensions are not currently supported. A method for
supporting extensions has been designed, similar to the way
properties and selections are supported using dynamically loaded
libraries, but work on implementation is not currently underway.

* Clients which grab the server exclusively can cause problems
for xmove. Since xmove is a single-threaded pseudoserver, it is
possible to lock xmove by trying to move a client while that
client's server is locked by someone else.

* Clients which make multiple connections to the server are only
properly recognized if the connections make reference to each
other before the client is moved. xmove detects when a connection
attempts to use resources created by another and links those
conections internally. It would be difficult to fix this problem,
since the X protocol has no way to tell with which process a
particular connection is associated.

* Servers must have the fonts needed by clients moving to them.
This may be a problem for some people (please let us know if it
is one for you!), and it can be overcome with some work. We
expect, however, that most environments will share certain common
fonts.

* Although not a limitation per se, if xmove fails for any
reason, all clients using that xmove will also fail, exactly as
is the case for the X server itself. Additionally, because xmove
is single-threaded, when xmove moves a client it cannot process
other clients until it is finished. There are a number of
possible solutions to this problem, but none are non-trivial and
most require the use of threads/lwp's, which would create
compatibility problems.


Limitations overcome in xmove 1.2:

* Clients may now be started on displays with read-only
colormaps, including grey-scale.

Limitations overcome in xmove 2.0:

* Clients may now be used on any kind of display, but not all
display types are compatible with oneanother.