New (Delphi) xlauncher

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jehan wrote:
> 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
> 

Oh man, I don't think we should be encouraging anyone to use Xnest.

Harold