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Re: [ VNC vs export display ] - use cygwin/XFree or ssh to export "Internet Explorer"
- From: Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com,Joel dot CARNAT at noos dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:32:22 +1000
- Subject: Re: [ VNC vs export display ] - use cygwin/XFree or ssh to export "Internet Explorer"
- References: <OFD5C35AAE.0668D222-ONC1256C14.003C8D42@LocalDomain>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 9:07 pm, Joel.CARNAT@noos.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an NT4/cygwin machine and an SUN U10 workstation.
> I would like to run IE and LotusNotes from the U10 (exporting the
> display)
> By now I use VNC but having a whole window for all winapps isn't that
> good...
>
> Is there a way (using ssh -X, I guess) to run WinApps from the U10 ?
> By now, when I do "ssh -X -C winbox notepad", it starts the winapp on
> the windows display...
> Even "ssh -X -C winbox ; export DISPLAY=U10 ; notepad", starts
> notepad on the winbox...
What you are trying to do will only work for X Applications. Windows
applications in general do not speak X, they draw themselves via GDI. If
someone were to port the Wine GDI->X conversion library to Cygwin, then what
you want to do may become possible (with quite a bit more work). Until then,
I'm pretty sure that what you are trying to do is not possible.
Rasjid.