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 -- 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/
