From: Ian B. <ib...@gm...> - 2005-02-07 18:51:04
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I re-read the link you posted in your last message, and it appears that the poster in question replaced explorer.exe with KDE. This is highly unusual, and looks like it was done without the use of coLinux at all, but with the use of KDE built under Cygwin. I guess its possible, since Cygwin creates an emulation layer to some degree. He then associated all exe's with execution, and allows himself to double-click an icon and run the program. You're not going to see this type of functionality with coLinux because even though coLinux is running on the host, it creates a whole new platform, rather than integrating with the original host. Ian On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:38:18 -0500, Dave Peterson <da...@tr...> wrote: > > Litestep looks interesting, but not what I am looking for either. I NEED > some MS applications but I want to keep MS hidden away and launch the app's > from an icon on the KDE desktop. On other forums, I have received > suggestions that include using ssh or telnet to launch the MS application. > How would you do that? Someone mentioned KDE/Cygwin. I have it running > that way but it is MUCH slower than Colinux/X/KDE. There is a thread I > found, http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=103072530327420&w that talks > about how to set an icon on the KDE desktop to launch a MS application. As > someone new to Linux and computers in general, it doesn't make much sense to > me, but maybe it has some applicability to what we're trying to do? > > Dave |