On 11/3/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > >On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +0000, Andy Moreton wrote: > >>>>Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and > >>>>windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. > >>>>Wine would be useful for remote program usage since it exports the > >>>>display via X11. > >>> > >>>This still sounds fairly pointless. the tools from sysinternals.com > >>>allow you to monitor all file and registry access from an application. > >>>A VNC client will solve your remote operation needs. > >>> > >>>So what is the real reason for wanting to do something so perverse ? > >> > >>Because it can be done! > >> > >>VNC is slow, there is no integration with the local desktop. You can't > >>work without interfering with the local desktop. Using wine just to > >>redirect the graphic display is overkill but unfortunatly the most > >>promising solution. > >> > >>Separation is yet another reason. > > > >Not only is VNC slow, but VNC only lets one user log on and run > >graphical programs at a time on Windows. It is possible to have > >multiple simultaneous Remote Desktop sessions, but only with Windows > >Terminal Server, which is expensive and pay-per-license (you need a > >license for each login "slot"), and only runs on Windows Server > >operating systems, which are also expensive. It would be very, very > >nice to be able to run graphical Windows programs remotely using ssh > >-X. > > > >Does anyone know if there any other way to do this, besides with Wine? > >(Perhaps something more native?) > > Since we seem to have gotten pretty far afield from anything > cygwin-related (Corinna has already indicated that Cygwin doesn't do > what was originally requested) maybe it would be best to take this to > another forum. > > I do have to say that this may be the first time I've ever heard anyone > indicate that they wanted to use cygwin because it gave them a speed > advantage, though... > > cgf
cgf-- It would seem to me that making an arbitrary window application use X11 to draw its windows would involve cygwin. I recognize that as moderator, it's your call. If you say nothing more on it, nor shall I. Would it be appropriate to move this to the Cygwin-X list? -Eliah -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
