Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:09:25PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If money is not too much of an object and time is, a client of mine was > using Cygwin and now is using nomachine (http://www.nomachine.com). There > is a freeNX version. I tried NX. It doesn't cost anything with the freenx ser

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-27 Thread slug
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:25:24AM +1000, Phill wrote: >> I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) >> that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being >> redirected to a remote output. > > That's certainly possible -- that's what xdmcp is about

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-27 Thread James
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 13:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Short answer: install cygwin on your windows machine, making sure to > > > install whatever X server is included with it. > > > > [snip] > > > > I don't believe that this is the answer. Cygwin allows the windows > > machine to have

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:25:24AM +1000, Phill wrote: > I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) > that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being > redirected to a remote output. That's certainly possible -- that's what xdmcp is about. > I d

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-26 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phill wrote: Hi all I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being redirected to a remote output. I do use a vnc at the momement. It is a bit slow and I was wondering about a more efficient way to ru

RE: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-26 Thread Phill
Hi all I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do) that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being redirected to a remote output. I do use a vnc at the momement. It is a bit slow and I was wondering about a more efficient way to run programs on

Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Forgot to copy this to the list --- Original Message --- Date: 10/25/2005 From: "Rev Simon Rumble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient On 25/10/2005, "Phill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm told that one of the big pros of the X s

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-26 Thread Bill
I'm currently using my new laptop on my home LAN ( dual booting Kanotix and XP) to access my 4 other PCS (3 of which are headless) running Kanotix/Kubuntu and/or XP and run programs on these PCs remotely. I'm using NX/FreeNx which is included in the Kanotix distro by default, and which is als

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/26/05, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:56:50PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from your > > definition of > > Gygwin as a simple "unix-api") then it also includes a full port of the core > > XFree86 t

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:56:50PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from your definition > of > Gygwin as a simple "unix-api") then it also includes a full port of the core > XFree86 to Windows. Minor point of order: it's even more up to date th

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:36:20AM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: > Phill wrote: > >I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the > >server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote > >desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on th

RE: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Roger Barnes
> It doesn't do what cxoffice does, but it does what the > original poster asked - i.e. to be able to login remotely to > a linux machine from Windows and run a graphics interface on > the Linux which displays its windows on the Windows machine. > > In case you are not up to date with it (whi

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/26/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the > > > server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a > > > remote desktop). How can I use my wi

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Phil Scarratt
James wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the linux m

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread James
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the > > server and the client can be on separate machines ( I  guess like a > > remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on > > the linux ma

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phill wrote: Hi all I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the linux machine. Currently I'm just using a "vnc" setup. Phill

[SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Phill
Hi all I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the linux machine. Currently I'm just using a "vnc" setup. Phill smime.p7s D