[THIN] Re: A challenge!
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:22:13 +0100
I've made my own equivalent of the wrapper in the past. It's fine for
published apps but published desktops display that damned "your desktop is
covered up" message. Can anyone suggest a way of getting rid of it? How does
Citrix know I've launched from a Windows desktop?
The DOS client is fine for us. It boots fast, can be installed on a 6MB
partition and runs in 4MB of RAM. Win98 has great memory management etc but
if it isn't needed, where's the benefit? I reckon simplicity is the key to
happiness for my engineers ;-)
Oh, one update. The flashing colour problem only seems to manifest itself in
256 colour mode. 16 colour mode is fine but hideously ugly.
-----Original Message-----
From: george.wasgatt@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:george.wasgatt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 October 2002 15:05
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: A challenge!
He's not using NT, he's using DOS. Angus is referring to the NT login
screen that appears after the ICA client has started and connected you to
the Citrix box.
I do have to agree with the other comment about using Win98 instead of DOS.
Win98 should get acceptable response time on P75 era boxes as well as
offering not only good video drivers, but excellent memory management as
well. Getting DOS to put a large part of the Microsoft TCP/IP stack in
upper memory is difficult. You end up with only a couple of hundred K free.
Using Win98 effectively solves that problem.
Of course a Linux box with the ICA client does have some attractions as
well...
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 9:57 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: A challenge!
Why are you using NT? Can you use Windows 98? Have you looked at the 98
wrapper solution. http://thethin.net/wrapper.zip
JK
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Angus Macdonald
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 9:33 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] A challenge!
Here's one for the pros.
I'm in the process of converting some elderly PCs (Mostly Pentium 75-120)
into DOS based thin terminals. All is fine unless I use an S3 based video
card, at which point there is about a 10% chance of extremely weird colours
when the NT login prompt appears.
Picture the NT login box. Now picture it with all the white areas flashing
through a 16 colour palette, spending about 0.25 seconds on each colour.
This only seems to happen with S3 cards and I've seen it with 4 different
chipsets so far on a choice of Intel motherboards. I've ordered a few
alternative graphics cards but the only PCI models I can get have, wait for
it, S3 Savage 4 processors.
I know it's a long shot but has anyone met and solved this one in the past?
Regards
Angus
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