On Tue, 1 May 2001, Doug Sutherland wrote: >.... Does anyone have any idea what one might > use Escher for, considering that Java already sits on top of X and has > AWT/Swing? Minimal embedded GUIs perhaps? The point of AWT/Swing was to > make it so you don't have to use the X protocol directly ... I thought it might be for something like the weirdX/wiredX Java Xserver, which is similar to Hummingbird or XWinPro for WindozeAPI; allowing an X server to be run, so that a X session can be established on any machine which supports Java. Remote X is wonderful, _IF_ VPN'ed : ) cheers Ben -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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