Building up my PC at work last week, I noticed that Cygwin/XFree86 added “multi-window” and integrated clipboard support back in January (obviously I hadn’t updated Cygwin in a while). What that means is each X window gets treated like any other window, complete with Luna styling on XP. The show up on the Taskbar like any native application would, and it’s possible to Alt-Tab and Cut-n-Paste between them.
Wish that I had discovered this sooner, it is exactly what I needed to make the switch to Ximian Evolution. With Outlook and Outlook Express finally gone from my PC, the only potentially hostile content that IE’s renderer will ever see is Windows Update.
Linux is soooo close to becoming my desktop OS. GNOME and KDE have been good enough for at least a year, Evolution has greatly improved since the last time I looked at it, rdesktop has been around for a while, there’s Galeon and Firebird… There’s hardly anything holding me back at this point. There’s no decent alternative to Visual Studio for C# / WinForms, but the SharpDevelop folks are working on it. VMware licenses aren’t portable across platforms. And fear, that’s the real hurdle.
Ah, well… for now I get the best of Linux without giving up XP. Cygwin is the shiznit.
Are you running Evolution on a remote Linux machine, or did you compile it for cygwin ?
That was with a remote Linux box.