On Tuesday 28 January 2003 08:40, Dan Kegel wrote:
I was sitting at my wife's XP machine with a spare
five minutes,
and it suddently came to me that I haven't done enough remote
testing of Wine. So I ran
wcmd
cygwin
startx
ssh -X mybox
ssh mylaptop
wine spyxx.exe
just to see how well wine would work via two ssh hops
on top of x on top of cygwin on top of winxp.
First issue: you can't use the menus with the mouse! Sure, they'll
pop up, but when you move the mouse down to one of the menu items,
the menu goes away. It decides the user really wanted to highlight
the toolbar, or something.
Before you say "Aw, nobody'll do that", consider that LTSP is getting
a lot more popular... and last week a local small business owner I know
asked me to help set up diskless Linux workstations to run his existing
Windows apps.
I use LTSP to run a diskless Linux workstation. I'm running two Windows
programs on top of it regularly (two dictionaries). And they work exactly the
same as they work on the main machine. I have also tried some other programs
too, and never seen any difference beetween the local and the remote machine
(wrt this).
So it works pretty good. I dont know for what the above cygwin and double ssh
is needed. I dont need it :)
Regards
Zsolt