> While munching a sandwich I got to thinking about VNC...
> I wonder how much work it would be to change VNC so that
> each window on the server machine shows up as a separate
> window on the client side. I know the Win32 X servers
> allow you to do this, but we all know that they have
> other problems...
>> That way Windows users could run multiple apps on a
> Linux server without needing a large VNC viewer
> window on their desktops.
Yeah, that'd be pretty darn cool alright. Happily, part of the job has
already been done; a patch has been written that allows you to serve up a
single win32 window based on window title. See the bottom of
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/extras.html.
I don't know if this handles things like window
move/resize/iconize/maximise/close though.
I imagine that when handling multiple windows things would get trickier. How
do you handle things like one server window covering up part of another
server window, and thus the lower server window isn't getting redraw events
on the server side? You'd also need a way to be notified if windows were
being created on the server. Then theres the matter of multiple clients.
Hmmm.
Cheers,
Brian.
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