<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vorner@vorner.cz" target="_blank">vorner@vorner.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><br>
</div>I hope they don't eat you alive for that ;-).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>They are used to running Windows XP. It is slow, it crashes (mostly due to the legacy</div><div style>
application I mentioned) and due to security reasons (XP being what it is) a lot of stuff</div><div style>isn't allowed. With Linux/xmonad we can open up a bit more, and they will get the benefit</div><div style>of running the legacy application in a WM that will reboot lightning fast.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>The only thing they might eat me alive for, is the lack of easy personal customization of</div><div style>things such as wallpapers.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">I know that's not exactly what you're asking for, but there are two other<br></div>
possibilities (I think both need the VirtualBox guest additions inside the<br>
virtual machine):<br>
• Let the Windows auto-resize according to the size of the VirtualBox window.<br>
That way, the Window desktop would be slightly smaller, but nothing would be<br>
missing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>It eats too many vertical pixels. The legacy application isn't too pleased with that.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div>
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• There's some kind of seamless mode in VirtualBox. It then just takes the<br>
windows inside the virtual machine and tries to present them as stand-alone<br>
windows in your WM, removing all the Windows desktop and taskbar, etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>I intend to try this, but I'm not too sure it will work. I suspect the task bar will "fall out"</div>
<div style>also, unless I can somehow get rid of xmobar on that specific workspace. But seamless</div><div style>is most certainly an option.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It's not VNC as such, but I use xmonad through ssh X11 forwarding (so I have<br>
local X server, remote xmonad and all the programs). It works well this way and<br>
in mixed mode too (some programs local, some remote, xmonad on either computer).<br>
<br>
I guess VNC wouldn't make much difference, since it's only transferring the<br>
final image somewhere else, so it shouldn't make a difference with the window<br>
manager used.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>I need plain old vanilly VNC access for support. If someone is having issues with their</div><div style>system I need to be able to log in and see the problem and help them fix it. This rules out</div>
<div style>X11 forwarding I believe.</div><div style><br></div><div style>:o)</div><div style>Thomas Løcke</div><div style> </div></div></div></div>