From cygwin-xfree-return-10798-listarch-cygwin-xfree=sourceware dot cygnus dot com at cygwin dot com Mon Jul 22 14:23:03 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com Received: (qmail 5968 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2002 14:23:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help at cygwin dot com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner at cygwin dot com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Received: (qmail 5961 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 14:23:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kirk.nscl.msu.edu) (35.8.34.84) by sources dot redhat dot com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 14:23:02 -0000 Received: from msu.edu (cycpc80.nscl.msu.edu [35.8.32.187]) by kirk dot nscl dot msu dot edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41670AE8D; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:23:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D3C15DA.9080402@msu.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:25:30 -0400 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020717 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jehan Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Subject: Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher References: <1027302081.1541.85.camel@tuxedo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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