Cygwin is providing the X server on the workstation, and all applictions, X or otherwise, are running on the server and feeding the KVM output to the workstation ...
VNC is free btw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Remi BERNHARD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Probably an Old Question - Xwindows over the net on a windows client? Yes but Win4Lin isn't free, is it ? I have tried Wine, but it's not able to run Dreamweaver 2 ... :-( Is CygWin able to run X applications ? Regards, Remi. On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:29:54 -0800 John N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Modem offert : 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense de Wanadoo ! > Haut débit à partir de 30 euros/mois : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/w __________________________________________________ Modem offert : 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense de Wanadoo ! Haut débit à partir de 30 euros/mois : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/w ------------------------------------------------------- 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