Cygwin works fine using, as an example, "\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\xwin.exe -query 192.168.0.254 -fullscreen"
The ever-trustworthy (and a bit slow) VNC also works fine ... Then if you ran Win4Lin on the Linux box you could have the interesting situation of running very unstable Window$ supporting somewhat more stable Cygwin supporting very stable Linux supporting a now somewhat less unstable Window$.... ad infinitum ...;-> Best John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris & Christine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Probably an Old Question - Xwindows over the net on a windows client? > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Chris & Christine wrote: > > > Thanks for the great replies! > > > > I've got putty ssh running on my windows machine, natch. > > But I'm after the gee-wiz GUI, eh? > > I wasn't aware that I could access x-windows remotely > > via putty. So techically, if I have x-windows > > installed on the remote machine and putty installed > > on my local windoze machine, I wouldn't need to > > use ltsp at all, is this correct? > > Ah, I wasn't thinking about you running Windows on your > local machine, I was assuming Linux. > > But, you can still do it, you will just need an Xserver for > your Windows machine. I've heard that Cygwin works nicely. > > Jim. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
