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 a unix-api and

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. I do

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

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

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 server/client is that the server and the client can

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

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

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 do

[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

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

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 machine.

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

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 windows

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 (which I

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 the

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 than

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 to Windows.