I would look into NX from NoMachine. I don't know much about it, but it may be close to what you are looking for. It is apparently not free. I tried the demo a few days ago over a 33.6 kbps modem and I was impressed.
I found it because it came up on the new forum@XFree86.org -- here is the first post of that thread: http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/0003 28.html
And here are two excerpts:
<quote> We spent last three years trying to make X so good as a network computing platform to compete in performances and functionalities with the leading proprietary technologies from Microsoft, Citrix and Tarantella. NX was made available few weeks ago. You can find all the modifications we did to the XFree86 code base as well all the additional components (for example the X compression libraries) at http://www.nomachine.com/dev_sources.php. Not only NX beats those products in performances, but aims to make X-Window the standard way to deploy applications to users of any OS. </quote>
<quote> - NX provides X, RDP and VNC desktops trasforming foreign protocols to X protocol. - NX is a complete X distribution for MS Windows - NX compresses X protocol (and foreign protocols) to a degree that makes possible to run complete desktop sessions on a remote server across the Internet, even through a modem link. A TestDrive server is available to the public. You can run a KDE or GNOME session from there, just to try. - NX makes any Linux workstation a Terminal Server, in the MS sense. - NX core software is based on XFree86, OpenSSH, RDesktop, VNC and other OpenSource components. All X related stuff developed by NoMachine has been released under GPL. - NX higher level components are commercial software but any company or good developer could implement an OpenNX project in a few months, if not weeks.
We know we made a very good job and want to preserve a competitive advantage, but it's our interest to have competition. We want to push X and Linux as a network computing platform. If X wins, we win. </quote>
I doubt that I'll have (or take) time to experiment with it any time soon -- I've seen nothing in the documentation or from any other source that tells me it is possible, and, on the contrary, have been told (on, for example, X mailing lists) that it is not possible (in X).
Sorry, this is my second reply to the previous "post" -- can you point to some instructions on how to "make a keyboard map of the number pad with whatever macro you want, and then toggle between the regular keypad and the macro keypad with a rarely-used button"?
It's not everything I'd want, but it sure would be a big step in the right direction.
(Disclaimer:I'm fairly new to Linux) I want to be able to send an arbitrary string of characters to the "current" application when I press a single special key, like s for my signature.
The keyboard remap utilities that I've found in Linux (xmodkey, etc.) don't seem to allow that, or am I missing something?
I also have seen that kde and some other window managers let you define shortcut keys to start programs and similar, but not to supply an arbitrary string of characters to a(ny) open application.
BTW, dos / Windows could do this years ago, with utilities like (IIRC) Robokeys, Superkey, etc.
I believe that kde's dcop might be used to program something along these lines, at least for kde applications, but that seems unneccesarily limiting.
I received one response from an X Window related mailing list (IIRC) that said X just couldn't work that way (IIUC) -- I don't understand why -- seems like it would need a modification to the X server, but that should be possible, and I don't see why it would be that difficult for someone who is familiar with the X code base (or, maybe that's the problem;-)
I don't really need an improved keyboard so much as I need something like "Superkeys" (a Windows utility) in Linux. This (if I recall the name right) is a utility that let's you assign an arbitrary sequence of keys to an arbitrary key combination. For example, s might insert my signature in whatever application I happen to be using.
I'm sure other people would like the same thing -- after all, at least one person made a comment below about his keyboard that does that in hardware.
I really don't understand why a utility like this is not available in X -- I have seen a statement in the XKeyCaps Manual (http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/man.html) under a section named "THINGS YOU CAN'T DO" which says:
"People often ask if xkeycaps or xmodmap can be used to make one key generate a sequence of characters. Unfortunately, no: you can't do this sort of thing by manipulating the server's keymaps. The X keyboard model just doesn't work that way."
What is it about the X keyboard model that prevents someone from implementing something like that? (I've done a little (very little) digging into the X documentation and don't understand why it could not be done -- looks like you'd have to do it in the X server (rather than the X client) so it would work for any application you might be using, but surely it's possible?
Just thought I'd venture a different theory on why the low numbers are on the bottom of a calculator keypad -- I suspect that zero and one are the most common digits to press when dealing with, especially, currency. And, the easiest keys to reach are those at the bootom.
Check out this page on twiki.org: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SearchEngineVs GrepSearch -- it discusses some search engines that have been / are being considered to replace the grep based search on TWiki.
To me, Namazu and Bool sound promising, but some others are discussed there as well.
TWiki is a Perl and cgi based wiki, and Namazu seems to be able to integrate into a.cgi based environment quite well, and can index Word documents.
This is a question rather than a comment. (With maybe some implied comments.)
Can anybody recommend some web or Usenet sites that specialize in discussion of what I think is ethics (or is it morals?)?. Places where questions like "is infringement of copyright good or bad?" are discussed?
If so, please Email me directly -- I suspect I won't read this set of slashdot comments again.
Thanks!
PS: I recognize the question of whether copyright infringement is good or bad may depend on many other things, like how people can earn a living, must people earn a living (or should a living be provided for free, and if so, how?) and many other questions.
Has anyone (web or Usenet site, author, whatever) recently started from what I might call first principles to discuss this? (I use "first principles" very loosely -- imagine the first prehistoric societies. Most people earn a living by hunting or gathering. Eventually, some may earn a living by leading, healing, educating, or entertaining. When should those who lead, heal, educate, or entertain be freed from the need to hunt or gather?)
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I would look into NX from NoMachine. I don't know much about it, but it may be close to what you are looking for. It is apparently not free. I tried the demo a few days ago over a 33.6 kbps modem and I was impressed.
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;-)
I found it because it came up on the new forum@XFree86.org -- here is the first post of that thread: http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000
And here are two excerpts:
<quote>
We spent last three years trying to make X so good as a network computing platform to compete in performances and functionalities with the leading proprietary technologies from Microsoft, Citrix and Tarantella. NX was made available few weeks ago. You can find all the modifications we did to the XFree86 code base as well all the additional components (for example the X compression libraries) at http://www.nomachine.com/dev_sources.php. Not only NX beats those products in performances, but aims to make X-Window the standard way to deploy applications to users of any OS.
</quote>
<quote>
- NX provides X, RDP and VNC desktops trasforming foreign protocols to X protocol.
- NX is a complete X distribution for MS Windows
- NX compresses X protocol (and foreign protocols) to a degree that makes possible to run complete desktop sessions on a remote server across the Internet, even through a modem link. A TestDrive server is available to the public. You can run a KDE or GNOME session from there, just to try.
- NX makes any Linux workstation a Terminal Server, in the MS sense.
- NX core software is based on XFree86, OpenSSH, RDesktop, VNC and other OpenSource components. All X related stuff developed by NoMachine has been released under GPL.
- NX higher level components are commercial software but any company or good developer could implement an OpenNX project in a few months, if not weeks.
We know we made a very good job and want to preserve a competitive advantage, but it's our interest to have competition. We want to push X and Linux as a network computing platform. If X wins, we win.
</quote>
The writer might have a bias.
Here's the home page: http://www.nomachine.com
Ok, Peter, thanks!
;-)
I doubt that I'll have (or take) time to experiment with it any time soon -- I've seen nothing in the documentation or from any other source that tells me it is possible, and, on the contrary, have been told (on, for example, X mailing lists) that it is not possible (in X).
Oh, for the good old days of ansi.sys.
Randy Kramer
Peter,
Thanks for the response!
I've been waiting for khotkeys for a while (at least two years, IIRC), or at least the feature that lets you assign a string to a key.
Before I try the procedure you suggested for X, can you confirm that I will be able to assign a string of characters to a single key?
I don't see how to assign more than one key to a single key(stroke) -- how do I separate them or whatever?
regards,
Randy Kramer
Sorry, this is my second reply to the previous "post" -- can you point to some instructions on how to "make a keyboard map of the number pad with whatever macro you want, and then toggle between the regular keypad and the macro keypad with a rarely-used button"?
It's not everything I'd want, but it sure would be a big step in the right direction.
Thanks!
(Disclaimer:I'm fairly new to Linux) I want to be able to send an arbitrary string of characters to the "current" application when I press a single special key, like s for my signature.
;-)
The keyboard remap utilities that I've found in Linux (xmodkey, etc.) don't seem to allow that, or am I missing something?
I also have seen that kde and some other window managers let you define shortcut keys to start programs and similar, but not to supply an arbitrary string of characters to a(ny) open application.
BTW, dos / Windows could do this years ago, with utilities like (IIRC) Robokeys, Superkey, etc.
I believe that kde's dcop might be used to program something along these lines, at least for kde applications, but that seems unneccesarily limiting.
I received one response from an X Window related mailing list (IIRC) that said X just couldn't work that way (IIUC) -- I don't understand why -- seems like it would need a modification to the X server, but that should be possible, and I don't see why it would be that difficult for someone who is familiar with the X code base (or, maybe that's the problem
I don't really need an improved keyboard so much as I need something like "Superkeys" (a Windows utility) in Linux. This (if I recall the name right) is a utility that let's you assign an arbitrary sequence of keys to an arbitrary key combination. For example, s might insert my signature in whatever application I happen to be using.
I'm sure other people would like the same thing -- after all, at least one person made a comment below about his keyboard that does that in hardware.
I really don't understand why a utility like this is not available in X -- I have seen a statement in the XKeyCaps Manual (http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/man.html) under a section named "THINGS YOU CAN'T DO" which says:
"People often ask if xkeycaps or xmodmap can be used to make one key generate a sequence of characters. Unfortunately, no: you can't do this sort of thing by manipulating the server's keymaps. The X keyboard model just doesn't work that way."
What is it about the X keyboard model that prevents someone from implementing something like that? (I've done a little (very little) digging into the X documentation and don't understand why it could not be done -- looks like you'd have to do it in the X server (rather than the X client) so it would work for any application you might be using, but surely it's possible?
Just thought I'd venture a different theory on why the low numbers are on the bottom of a calculator keypad -- I suspect that zero and one are the most common digits to press when dealing with, especially, currency. And, the easiest keys to reach are those at the bootom.
Check out this page on twiki.org: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SearchEngineVs GrepSearch -- it discusses some search engines that have been / are being considered to replace the grep based search on TWiki.
.cgi based environment quite well, and can index Word documents.
To me, Namazu and Bool sound promising, but some others are discussed there as well.
TWiki is a Perl and cgi based wiki, and Namazu seems to be able to integrate into a
Hope this helps!
Just for the record:
1 + 99 = 100
2 + 98 = 100
...
50 + 0 = 50
sum (1..100, step=1) { x } = 4950, not 5050
On the other hand:
1 + 100 = 101
2 + 99 = 101
...
50 + 51 = 101
50 * 101 = 5050
Be careful building fences!
Independent discovery works as a way to circumvent a trade secret, it does not work to circumvent a patent!
IANAL, but neither, I think, is the poster I'm responding to. Maybe a lawyer can comment?
This is a question rather than a comment. (With maybe some implied comments.)
Can anybody recommend some web or Usenet sites that specialize in discussion of what I think is ethics (or is it morals?)?. Places where questions like "is infringement of copyright good or bad?" are discussed?
If so, please Email me directly -- I suspect I won't read this set of slashdot comments again.
Thanks!
PS: I recognize the question of whether copyright infringement is good or bad may depend on many other things, like how people can earn a living, must people earn a living (or should a living be provided for free, and if so, how?) and many other questions.
Has anyone (web or Usenet site, author, whatever) recently started from what I might call first principles to discuss this? (I use "first principles" very loosely -- imagine the first prehistoric societies. Most people earn a living by hunting or gathering. Eventually, some may earn a living by leading, healing, educating, or entertaining. When should those who lead, heal, educate, or entertain be freed from the need to hunt or gather?)