New (Delphi) xlauncher

[Jehan]

Harold Hunt wrote:
> Think about it: you are creating a graphical application that launches a
> graphical windowing system.  Therefore, you have to already have a graphical
> windowing system of some form running.  At last count, that means that you
> are running either Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, or maybe BeOS.  You certainly
> can't be running on any platform that uses X11 as the graphical windowing
> system, because you would have to have X11 running in order to launch X11
> via your launcher.
> 
> Now, the Mac OS X folks have lots of neat ways that their server is already
> tied into the Mac OS X-specific startup methods and such.  Supporting BeOS
> would be a silly academic waste of effort.  OS/2 is similar, but good luck
> finding a cross-platform toolkit that includes OS/2 support.
> 
> So, what are your real targets here?  Have I missed some operating system
> that also needs an X launcher utility?

I think Xnest was mentioned a few days ago... yes, that was it:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00166.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00388.html

	Jehan