On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Jehan wrote: > Nicholas Wourms wrote: > Tho I can't quite understand > > what this driving desire for a rootless X server is all about? To my > > death, I'll never understand why people like the explorer window manager > > over the X alternatives. I mean c'mon people, Windows Explorer as a > > window manager sucks. Why would you want it to manage your X > > applications?
Full ACK. > Now, having an alternative would be nice, that's for sure. As my boss is > fond of saying: "two is better than one". If you want to remove Windows > Explorer, go check Shellfront (http://shellfront.org/). But you will > never see Notepad running in an X window. Cygwin works *on top of* > Windows, not the other way around. Cygwin *add* a unix layer to Windows, > it doesn't *replace* Windows. If you really want that, if you really > want your All-X desktop, go install Linux and run your Windows > applications using Wine. You just pointed me to a long forgotten thing. Wine has a display driver, which exports all GDI calls to X11. Maybe some freak will port it to windows and I can use Windowsapplications remote :) bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
