Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:51 AM szurgot

Windows Wishlist - X-Windows like functionality (individual windows from RDC)

As I mess with all of these betas and CTPs, one functionality I really miss from when I worked with Unix was/is the ability to send individual windows to a listening "X-Server". On a good X-Server (Hummingbird Xceed), you could have individual windows shwo up instead of the entire desktop. (This was always useful for getting through the firewall to run programs. Tunnel through, spawn xterm, and kick off any other program from there...) At any rate, it would be nice to fire up a virtual server session, and kick individual programs back to my main desktop, instead of having to run the entire server/virtual desktop.

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# re: Windows Wishlist - X-Windows like functionality (individual windows from RDC)

Monday, August 29, 2005 3:42 AM by WildHeart'2k5

Citrix Metaframe does something similar: one can publish an application and have it displayed in what they call "seamless" mode where only the application's window and children are taken from the remote server... Of course Metaframe is not exactly free...