On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Natalie Ford wrote: > So, I need to be running X on my client end? I run ssh from windoze...
No you need to be running an XServer on your server end[1]. There are many X servers that work with Windows, and many ssh clients that will do the forwarding to these clients. Most of these you need to pay for. IIRC the latest (free as in beer) versions of putty[2] does X forwarding, but you'll still need a seperate X Server running on the windows box otherwise it won't have anything capible of drawing the actual application ;-) Personally on my Windows box I use cygwin[3] (free - beer and speech - windows port of gnu stuff that has a nice installer) with a port of gnu-ssh and XFree86[4]. It's not the most elegant solution, but it works well enough for me for my occasional windows use and I don't have to pay for anything. Most importantly, it's not rootless, meaning all your Xserver windows run inside a big window. Win-R cmd bash startx & ssh 2shortplanks.com xterm & [1] Oddness of X. The server is the computer with the monitor attached to it. The programs you run on your Linux/FreeBSD/Computer are the clients that need a server to display upon. It's the programs that initilise the conversation because they want to display something. [2] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ [3] http://www.cygwin.com/ [4] http://cygwin.com/xfree/ -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t=Tgetent Term'Cap{};print$t->Tputs(cl);for$w(split/ +/ ){for(0..30){$|=print$t->Tgoto(cm,$_,$y)." $w";select$k,$k,$k,.03}$y+=2}
