-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI, a bit of information about the discussion I had with a XWinX developer. - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Xwinx-general] Running Windows apps on a X desktop Date: 09 Feb 2002 12:52:43 +1100 From: Kim Saunders To: Chris Howells

That sounds excellent. I'm just wondering a few things though. Would it work with any application? Or would support for specific applications need to be hard-coded into XWinX?

If it were to happen at all (and that's a not-insignificant if), then it would happen in such a way that it would work with all apps. Some would no doubt work better than others, and some that do tricky things (like faking transparent areas in their windows, faking non-rectangular windows, etc) might not work so well. So, it would be implemented in one way for all apps, but that isn't to say that all apps would work equally well.

Also, with XWinX, is there any support for running applications under different user names, so that it becomes possible to share a home directory with the Linux and Windows box?

At this stage, no. Recent versions of NT do obiosly have the capability to have multiple users running apps concurrently, as with Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, and Terminal Services in Windows 2000.

"We tried a few methods to do this and I at least gave up. To me, the problem seems to be rooted in making Windows multi-user. While transmitting individual windows may not be a gigantic problem, making more than one interactive, especially with multiple people using it _is_ a hard problem. If you just want to transmit a single window to a single desktop, that isn't quite as challenging. There might also be licensing problems in transmitting the individual applications."

This is definately correct, having multiple users have individual apps published off one desktop is unlikely to work well. It would probably work OK for one remote user using one or maybe more apps. It is *possible* that at some point, XWinX could be coded to hook into the Terminal Services stuff in Windows so as to do proper, separate sessions on their own desktops, as with Terminal Services/Citrix. Realistically, this is unlikely to happen with XWinX happening as the rather low-ley project it currently is, if someone were to hire someone to look into implementing this, it's probably quite possible to do. KimS - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8bl/CF8Iu1zN5WiwRAnJNAJ9Cit+bz0vAGoC2q+u4eId/B9JYTACcDfxH MzpETTsdOWcegruoa+4r7Nc= =52Dt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----