Teleporting - Mobile X Sessions

This paper examines issues involved in making an X session mobile. A mobile X session is one which is not xed to a particular X display, but can be materialised on demand at any suitable display. The Teleporting System developed at Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) is a tool for experiencing mobile X sessions. It provides a familiar, personalised way of making temporary use of X displays as the user moves from place to place. When linked to location facilities such as those provided by the Olivetti Active Badge 1 System the traditional log-in process can be almost entirely eliminated, allowing the nomadic user to easily make use of computing resources which are to hand.