On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:53 PM, James Knott wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I want to put an embedded system in someone's office. Embedded because I >> don't want them trying to log on or mess with it in any way. And the idea >> is that on that system I'd like to have OOo so when someone is using Windows >> or OS X or Linux, they could somehow run OOo on the embedded system, yet >> have the display show on THEIR computer. >> >> > That's easy enough to do with Linux. Just use ssh -X to the target computer > and issue the command "soffice". This will cause OOo to open on your local > system. This can be used with almost any app. You can even do it all in one > command with ssh -X <target> soffice. You can even create icons to do this > for you with a single click. You can also enable X forwarding, so that you > don't have to add -X to the command. In short, with Linux, it's very easy to > do. Can't say the same for Windows.
The problem is most of the people I'll be working with are going to be using Windows AND are not technically advanced, so they're going to want something simple, in other words, point-and-click. Although, as you say, I can do it with icons. I know putty can work like ssh, but I don't know if there's any way to use X forwarding on Windows. I do know it works on OS X, though. There are also font issues when doing that. I have had up to something like 7 computers on my LAN at a time and use 1 keyboard and monitor (or, right now, just an iMac) and run apps through X a lot, but often have had trouble with the window of the app being useable. I've had cases with fonts showing MUCH larger on the guest computer display than that same font looked on the host or on the guest when on a native program. If I could be sure that the images and fonts wouldn't come out funky looking, I guess that would work. I just haven't seen a consistency in appearance. If you know anything about fixing that issue, I'm open to it. I've also considered the idea of a special setup of VNC, where the VNC window is somehow constrained to be the same size as the OOo window. But I don't know if that's possible. Hal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
