VNC can't do this because it deals with the screen at the framebuffer level and not the window level.
For a poor mans version of what you are wanting to do just edit your ~/.vnc/xstartup file and instead of launching a desktop such as twm, kde or gnome, just start your application with a -geometry switch set to the resolution you are running your vncserver at. When you connect to the vncserver it will appear to just be one application running inside a Windows window. You can run vncserver at any res, so just choose a widow size that will meet your requirements. This works best for applications with no dialogs since you are not running a WM manager handling multiple windows doesn't work well. If you app does have multiple windows then you might try a very minimal Window Manager. This is not exactly what you want, but it will give you the each app in its own window effect, but popups will be bound inside this window also, which is unlike the rootless X server of exceed. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:53, Don Geddis wrote: > 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 > > [Please copy my email on any replies; I'm not subscribed to this list.] > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Don Geddis http://don.geddis.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
