Jehan wrote: > 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 >
Oh man, I don't think we should be encouraging anyone to use Xnest. Harold
