Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 08/29/05 18:41

__/ [Toby Inkster] on Monday 29 August 2005 13:51 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> I never managed to work out Cygwin to its depths myself (last attempt
>> when I was 19). I must have pointed out Cygwin for the sake of platform
>> impartiality. Since you need to grab the display from X and usage from
>> kernel-level, I doubt it's (trivially) doable.
>
> Look towards TightVNC. If you want to let people see what's going on on
> your desktop, that's the way to go.
>
> Cross-platform -- there are servers for Windows and Linux (and probably
> some other OSes) and clients for even more platforms. There's also a Java
> applet client, so your desktop can be embedded into a web page.

I am forced to use VNC (most typically remote desktop from Linux) for work,
but I don't know if/how VNC helps in just grabbing a snapshot. If a
connection is established with another node, you could possibly grab a
screenshot locally. Can you do this every 10 minutes? Knowing what I know,
it would not be simple. Windows does not expose many of its inner,
down-under feature, neither does it provide easy-to-use and 'intrusive'
interfaces. Expressiveness is another issue. Monad will not be included in
Vista, but it's scheduled to be released some day in the distant vista.

Roy

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