Re: X client wrapper for Win apps?

[Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev dot net>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 5:58 am, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
<snip>
> VNC is not the better solution. It grab parts of the picture _after_ they
> were drawn. X11 sends the drawing commands across network. There was always
> a VNC client for windows which allowed access to a unix session. But as
> this is far from being fast someone started building a xserver for windows.
>
> VNC requires much higher bandwidth than X11 and will fail on fast changes
> of the display content.
>

As a VNC user who runs Linux and home to control a Windows NT machine at work, 
and finds the performance less than satisfactory even with ADSL both ends, I 
would be very interested in the 'X client wrapper for Win apps' idea.  I 
suspect the performance would be subtantially better (assuming decent 
optimisation and caching).

As far as I can tell, Radmin (http://www.radmin.com) is a commercial product 
that uses the GDI hook idea, and if you believe its marketing, it outperforms 
all other (windows) remote control software by a significant margin.  
Unfortunately, it is only Windows-Windows.

Anyway, I think that something that allows Windows apps to be easily displayed 
on Xservers (other than VNC) would be a really good thing.  Particularly if 
just the application could be displayed as opposed to the entire desktop.  It 
opens up all sorts of possibilities, in the same way that a rootless mode 
does.

I would like to see this happen and would be happy to test! :-)

Rasjid.