Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like > this a year ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too > unweildy for me.
For some reason, if you google for something like "Windows X server" XDeep doesn't show up for many pages; all the expensive ones show up first. > Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually > different from VNC/VNC server? It's been a while since I used VNC; there are some differences, but I'd have to look it up. > Is the app running on the local computer instead of the > server? It sometimes confuses people that the process on your local computer is called the X server, since we tend to think of a "server" as "the remote machine". In this case, however, the display is the resource being "served". Clients are the GUI applications that request display services from the X server. Therefore, I run XDeep as my server on a local Windows machine. Then using PuTTY, I make a terminal connection to a remote machine using ssh. In that terminal, I start a GUI application, say, GIMP. GIMP looks for the display port (typically set as an environment variable $DISPLAY) and then sends all display traffic thence. GIMP doesn't know where the physical display is (in fact, if it's tunneled through ssh, it looks like a local port on the same machine as GIMP). Hope that made it more clear rather than less. Ted ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
