To use Linux/X from my Windows PC desktop, I recently converted from
Hummingbird Exceed's PC X server to VNC. I love almost everything about it,
including secure tunneling through SSH (PuTTY), easy recovery when my network
goes down, cheap price (!), etc.
But I greatly miss one feature from Exceed. While Exceed had the option of
running all windows from X inside of a PC window with a virtual desktop, it
also had this awesome option of using the local MS Windows (ME/XP) as the
local window manager.
That meant that there was no containing desktop, and every started X window
became an XP window also, appearing in the Windows taskbar, etc.
That was an ideal arrangement, allowing me to interleave work between
some applications that were remote under X, with others that were local on the
PC.
I find that I sorely miss being able to mix my window types on the same
desktop. Is there any hope that some future VNC implementation might add
this feature? (I did a quick search of the mailing list archives, and didn't
notice this topic being mentioned before, although surely people have
considered it.)
>From what I know of the VNC architecture, it would probably be a challenge.
If one remote user wanted to use their own XP as the window manager, then that
information isn't at the unix server, and I wonder what a second remote user
would see if connecting to the same desktop. Presumably, all the same windows,
but without any (X) window manager running.
Anyway, given my work habits, such a feature would be a _major_ improvement
in the functionality of the software. Just curious if anyone has given it
much thought.
-- Don
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