"Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" wrote: > > http://www.ringworld.org/~zibby/Screenshots/AtWork.jpg > > Hey look, I can generate the same effect! :) > > To me it looks like they're just running a Windows based X server. Since > you can't see their windows taskbar this can't really be confirmed. Well, they _were_ running a Windows X server. They didn't port the applications to run through the native Windows GUI, so they need an X server. Whether the software is running on the local system or not is the real question... > On a similar note, here's my screenshot of IE "ported" to windows. > > http://www.ringworld.org/~zibby/Screenshots/Disturbing.png > > Now here's the riddle you have to solve: All biniaries on my system are > linux native. IE isn't running under wine, and the screenshot is not > doctored in anyway (other than I resised it...) Hmm.. I have a number of ideas, but I can't say any of them are anywhere close to being true. It could be that you're actually running a native Linux version of IE -- of course that would mean that you just broke an NDA with Microsoft or someone and are about to get sued into the ground. IE could have been converted to a native Linux app through use of some external program (I'm not aware of any such program for Linux, though there was a fair amount of work put into a similar utility for OS/2). You could just be lying about it running through an emulator. I know that I've run Windows apps through Wine on remote machine and had them display on my local box (just set $DISPLAY appropriately, and it works..) You would only have Linux-native apps on your own system in that case. The program could also be running natively on a Windows box, but just the window is being exported, rather than the entire display (Citrix WinFrame?) The browser that is running could actually be Mozilla (or another browser) running in a skin. You would need to change or remove the window border for that to work, though doing so is easy when using a window manager such as Sawfish. Lastly, you could be merely displaying an image without it being within a window border. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Double your drive space - / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ delete Windows! \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]
