From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 19 17:40:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11340 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11328 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA02079; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:03:21 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199802200033.LAA02079@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Scott Michel cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Tom , Andrzej Bialecki , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:28:01 -0800." <199802200028.QAA21313@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:03:20 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Mmmm, and you should see the list of software which doesn't like running in > God only knows why!). Don't need a client. All you need is an X server. > My desktop down there is a SS-20 with Solaris 2.6. It also seems to > help that the SS-20 is OC-3 connected to the same switch as the NT box. Hmm, neat, didn't realise it could act as an X client. > That said, there are indeed a number of applications which assume they > own the machine and video card where the user is located. This is not > an unreasonable assumption on the part of the software, if you consider > this an 80/20 situation. Yeah, its still annoying tho - I also have seen a program which doesn't like the fact that there are multiple copies running on the same machine (its client server and uses the machine id as a unique ID :) > Most other people who are using this Citrix spooge use the thin client > when dialed in over PPP. I've never used it, so I won't comment on it. Yeah, apparently it works OK.. Bits of the South Australian govt use it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message