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And, the idea of windows and X sharing the same windowing environment has been around even longer! :-) Try: http://www.winehq.com/about.shtml

boult -- You are right about GAIM vs. Fire. GAIM totally wins, feature-wise. Also, thanks a lot for the link to the ported libs -- that will help a lot! If you have a fast connection, you might try to get the dev tools from apple. If you are at all comfortable with the CLI, often it is not too hard to get a program compiled. Look in other threads for more exact...

And now a note as to why a VNC Server for OS X would be a good thing, even if we get OS X native forwarding. ...

t convinced me at all why an OS X VNC server is impossible, or even the reasons why you find my thoughts so laughable. ...

s Xtools to run X11 apps but prefer a VNC window. ...

I have read, can\'t remember where now, that Quartz has remote display capabilities buit in. Not that they\'re available right now, as of PB, and perhaps won\'t be as of 1.0, but that somewhere in the future, they could be. Given that there is a reasonable separation between the apps and the window server/manager in OS X (unlike OS 6-9 ? ), it shouldn\'t be too difficult....

1) Incorrect. You can always encrypt any tcp stream. Apple will NOT have to design a new tool |-p 2) There are a few 3rd party PDF viewers. One could be converted into a remote PDF viewer. We already have display ghostscript for postscript, why not for PDF as well? (ghostscript can render PDF documents) What makes you think a VNC-like solution would be faster than a...

platform like VNC does. ...

transparent object in Win32 over VNC and watch it slow to a crawl. ...

I am using Xvnc, so I can tell you what I did. If you are unsing XFree, the process is likely similar In ~/.vnc/xstartup I just changed the line twm & to afterstep & looking through the default startx script on my computer (Can't quite recall how it got there, maybe when I installed Xvnc...), it seems that it looks for a ~/.xinitrc, and runs one if it finds it. ...