Problem: I love VNC, but I want the various windows of my VNC viewer session to be in the Alt-Tab order of my machine. That is, I want to be able to Alt-Tab through the windows on the remote session, intermixed with the windows of my host session.
Idea: If the vncserver didn't define a full desktop, but instead kept track of each window individually, I guess that the viewer would then be able to display each window as a window on the host system. I'm not an X expert (maybe there are reasons why this can't work), but it seems generally like it might work.
Is there any utility that does something like this? Or any comments on whether or not it is possible?
I gather from your terminology that you are running VNC Viewer on a Windows platform and Xvnc on a Unix-type platform. If this is the case, it sounds like what you are looking for is an X-Server for Windows (or whatever the viewing platform is). There are several ones available for Windows, both free (including libre) and commercial.
Otherwise if your server platform is not running Xvnc, I do not believe this is practical with VNC. VNC would not be able to grab the image of an application that is "behind" other Application windows; at best it could send a portion of the screen. Another limitation of the RFB protocol (as I understand it) is that it can not change the size of the desktop dynamically, meaning even if you could share a single application you would not be able to resize that window as you can other application windows.
Hopefully an X-Server will do what you need.
-Ben : ) _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
