VNC project idea request

[Gregory Martin Pfeil]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, James Hall wrote:

> Exactly! I'm a little bit of a linux person myself, I run a linux
> server at the vocational school I goto and I like to play around
> with the remote launching of the apps, although, being the only
> linux box in the pack, I could only launch the proggies to xvnc
> desktops... which is what led me to my idea except the extra
> desktops behind the apps are kinda messy, so I just wanted to have
> the viewer view just the program,

Well, you can already do this.  I think it's called "X-Win 32" or
something, but it's an X server for Windows.  The difference I've seen
from other similar products is that it doesn't run the X server in a
window with a remote window manager, but runs the apps as if Windows
was your window manager.  The fact that Linux/Unix has the ability to
do this (at zero cost) was almost enough in itself to have my roommate
drop Windows.

> and be able to do this trick in windows too (we have a few
> programs that only run in windows that I'd like to use at my linux
> box, they won't run in wine!

Here's where your extensions to VNC would be needed.  If this existed,
I may be willing to set up a Windows box so I can use MS Project from
my Linux desktop (if anyone knows of a similar program for Linux,
please let me know.

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Greg Pfeil --- Software Engineer --- (pfeilgm@|http://)technomadic.org
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