Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Wrong list.  All questions about X on Cygwin should be directed to
<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>.  Redirecting...
	Igor

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Bullock wrote:

> This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product.
>
> Background:
> With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking
> Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet.  What we are doing is placing
> a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that
> needs to access the Internet.  This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a
> huge headache.
>
> What I desire.  I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows
> box.  When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux
> Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice.  First off is this possible?
> and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen.  I do not want to
> have to run the entire terminal client.  Currently, what we have tested is
> from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the
> entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser.
>
> Regards,
> Chris

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