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Documentation / Contents - CyThrough

• Overview of CyThrough
  • What It Is
  • What It Is Not
  • The Three Programs
  • In This Book
• Setting Up
  • What You Need
  • Build and Install
  • Setup With the GUI
  • Setup Without the GUI
  • Lab Auth File
  • Hardware Display Attach
  • Check That It Works
  • Common Mistakes
• Using CyThrough
  • Connect and Catalog
  • Launch and Running
  • Materialize On Desktop
  • Published Apps Menu
  • Quality and Encryption
  • Stopping Apps and the Daemon
• Command Line
  • cythrough Viewer
  • cythroughd Daemon
  • cythrough-prefs Launcher
  • Password and Knock Order
  • Environment
• How the Protocol Works
  • Framing
  • Channels
  • HELLO and Auth
  • Catalog and Launch
  • Pixels and Input
  • Capabilities and Codecs
  • Manager and Backend
• Keys and Shortcuts
• Files and Paths
  • Client Conf
  • Daemon Conf
  • Catalog Cache
  • Desktop Launchers
• Copyright

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The CyThrough help book is part of Blueprint, a clean-room revival of the SGI IRIX Interactive Desktop. CyThrough itself is BSD-2-Clause C99 in the Cyanotype house.

Copyright (c) 2026, Swift Griggs and The Cyanotype Project contributors. All rights reserved. Distributed under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Blueprint is not a product of, nor endorsed by, Silicon Graphics. "IRIX" and "Silicon Graphics" are used only to describe what Blueprint revives. xpra is prior art we learn from; we do not ship, link, or name it in the UI.