Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/23/09:36:37
Wrong list. All questions about X on Cygwin should be directed to
<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>. Redirecting...
Igor
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Bullock wrote:
> This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product.
>
> Background:
> With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking
> Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing
> a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that
> needs to access the Internet. This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a
> huge headache.
>
> What I desire. I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows
> box. When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux
> Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice. First off is this possible?
> and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen. I do not want to
> have to run the entire terminal client. Currently, what we have tested is
> from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the
> entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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