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  • There’s also winapps you can use to run it in a native windows environment in some way (another machine tucked away somewhere, in a VM etc.) and have it acting like a native app over RDP and even have integrations with file manager like file associations.

    Instead of having a full desktop view in a remote desktop session, you’ll get each window in a separate window that’ll act like any other singular app. I used it when I had to use ms office and some other windows only app when I had a secondary PC that had to have windows anyway in a separate office in the same building.

    It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of winboat and i feel like they are pretty much equivalent in what they do.


  • I don’t know how feasible for you to use an immediate mode GUI library but imgui came to my mind as soon as i read the post. However it’s written in C++ instead of C.

    I never tried the C bindings but it seems to have a couple of options including cimgui to use imgui in a C project.

    Maybe it’s worth a shot if you want something that’s proven to be lightweight and battle tested (I mean the main imgui project for this).



  • I think I found the half of the answer.

    Out of curiosity I downloaded and installed the trial version from their website. When I inspected it, turns out it’s written in Delphi. What I’m guessing due to monolithic nature of the software (i.e. huge .exe file holding almost everything for the system) the already big (32.9 megabytes) .exe file is actually compressed. When uncompressed it’s approximately 100 megabytes. When I checked the extracted binary(extraction due to execution, hence looking at the memory dump of a once ran executable) the resources now show the logo and the name your censored in a png resource file.

    There are several versions of it but I’m guessing one of them is used in that header, others may be used in about window etc.

    Unfortunately my quickly hacked up dump file doesn’t run. So even if a modification is done, the resulting exe is not useful as it is.

    Detect-it-easy can’t find the exact compressor for the exe sections. So I don’t know if there’s any available de-compressor for this .exe.

    At least my findings show why you can’t see those resources in resource hacker. Because it’s compressed and unreadable as it is from the .exe.

    It’ll probably be possible to modify those resources once someone can create a runnable extracted version of the original .exe. I hope this helps. I’ll post again if I have any other findings and/or solution.














  • Yeah I saw that option to offer free upgrade for the claimed personal use and that’s nice. It’s also just fine for paying such a product as a whole. I was just frustrated for not being able to try it with a single server.

    Reason for Oracle Linux is my Linux journey pretty much started and continued with rhel based distros, be it Mandrake(yeap good old Mandrake) at home at first then actual redhat subscription in the research center I volunteered and mostly centos on my servers as well as fedora as my workstation OS.

    After Centos upstream change, I started using Oracle and it’s nice and stable. As far as the explanation on the product page goes I guess anything that looks like rhel (like Rocky) will also ring the enterprise bells.

    Thankfully most hobbyists like raspi users will go with Debian based stock OS or use something like Ubuntu server version so they’ll be fine with free version of xpipe.