Harold Hunt wrote: > Think about it: you are creating a graphical application that launches a > graphical windowing system. Therefore, you have to already have a graphical > windowing system of some form running. At last count, that means that you > are running either Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, or maybe BeOS. You certainly > can't be running on any platform that uses X11 as the graphical windowing > system, because you would have to have X11 running in order to launch X11 > via your launcher. > > Now, the Mac OS X folks have lots of neat ways that their server is already > tied into the Mac OS X-specific startup methods and such. Supporting BeOS > would be a silly academic waste of effort. OS/2 is similar, but good luck > finding a cross-platform toolkit that includes OS/2 support. > > So, what are your real targets here? Have I missed some operating system > that also needs an X launcher utility?
I think Xnest was mentioned a few days ago... yes, that was it: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00166.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00388.html Jehan
