[FreeNX-kNX] Obtaining the X Windows ID of the NX window

[brendan powers]

Do you know if the cygwin x server is running in rootless mode?

On 10/3/07, Terje Andersen <terander at guard.zapto.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:35 +0100, Seb James wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 22:19 +0100, George Wright wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 09:29:30 Seb James wrote:
> > > > > > NX> 999 X Window ID:2341
> > > > >
> > > > > Don't like it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Better use a NX 728> X Window ID:2341, but I don't know if its already
> > > > > available at that moment.
> > > >
> > > > Fine - I actually put 999 in there to say "some number which would make
> > > > sense within the NX numbering scheme".
> > >
> > > Is there any reason why this should be X Windows specific? Ideally we'd want a
> > > cross-platform Window ID to be reported back, unless there's no possible use
> > > case for the Window ID on !X11.
> >
> > I don't see why it shouldn't be just "Window ID" to be interpreted in
> > the most suitable way for the OS, whether or not the client is running
> > X, Windows, a pure framebuffer, or whatever.
> >
> > However, the nxagent is always running on the NX server machine, which
> > currently has to be X. I think that whatever the client is running on,
> > the nxagent will think that it is creating an X window and will have an
> > internal variable holding that X window ID.
> >
> > I don't know how NoMachine's Windows client works - does it run up a
> > pseudo X server in Windows?
> >
>
> The Windows client uses a Cygwin X-server that the applications from the
> nxserver is shown on.
>
>
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