Re: [coLinux-users] create shortcuts on desktop

[Samir K. <sam...@gm...>]

Thanks. It works.


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 04:52:19 +0100, Olivier Souiry <co...@a-...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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
> 
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