* Tomasz Chmielewski (2005-06-14 22:37 +0100) >> You are making an assumption that MS Windows was designed as a networked >> windowing system. It's not. It's not Cygwin's fault nor X windows fault >> rather it is MS' fault in that their concept of GUI windowed apps is not >> cleanly divided into the client/server paradigm. > > No, I don't make any assumption that MS Windows can "stream" the display > in a client/server mode [...]
WTF? Windows applications simply aren't X clients. That's all. For the "superiority" of the X window server/client concept you may have a look at http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html The first thing everyone notices about this disaster is the braindead exchange of the client/server terminology every else uses in computing. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/