Re: [coLinux-users] create shortcuts on desktop

[Olivier S. <co...@a-...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samir Kuthiala" <sam...@gm...>
To: <col...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: [coLinux-users] create shortcuts on desktop


> Hi
>
> I have got the latest colinux working on my comp along with
> colinuxManager (which is quite a useful prog). The new version seems
> to be much faster as compared to 0.6.1. I am using X-win32 as my
> windows x-server. Is there any way of creating shortcuts to various
> linux apps on the windows desktop?
>
> Thx
> Samir


Indeed :

first, create a session with XUTIL32, using rexec and a command like :

DISPLAY=$MYIP:1 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

if your X-Win32 display is :1, use :0 if you want. put a password if you
don't want to enter it each time.

(you may want to install a rexec server and add a few hosts to /etc/hosts in
order to give a machine name to your Windows ip in your subnetwork,
(typically 192.168.0.1), Starnet (X-Win32 editor) describes it as a
shortcoming of Linux's rexec implementation.)


once that works, you can create a shortcut containing :

C:\Prog2\XWin32\xwin32.exe xtermsession, where xtermsession is the name of
the session you just created.


there may be a safer way to do this, but this one works fine.


Regards, Olivier Souiry