This is an X-specific question, and needs to go to the Cygwin/X list. Redirecting.
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Richard Foulk wrote: > Aloha, > > As someone pointed out you can use Cygwin with X as an X terminal. > For remote admin of a linux/unix box that's pretty handy. By invoking > this command from Cygwin before starting X: > > x -broadcast > > you get a window that contains the whole remote desktop. Is there a way > to create multiple separate such windows/desktops on one Cygwin system? > That would be mighty handy for admining multiple machines. Try "X :0 -broadcast", "X :1 -broadcast", etc. For more information, see "man XWin". HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/