On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Amy Alford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nothing stops you from running your window manager and all over X > forwarding. Once you launch the window manager remotely, the > forwarding becomes pretty transparent. The menus will launch remote > software and the xterms they launch will be remote. > I'm sure someone has a slick way of doing the initial window manager > launch. That's a clever idea. I'll have to try looking into that. > The font problems with mathematica are resolvable. I used to run > mathematica off of glue displaying on my dorm room linux box all the > time. You need to set up font forwarding. In theory, any program X > forwarded could have font issues if the two computers have different > fonts installed. I've never been clear how to do this right. For Mathematica, one can simply put a copy of the fonts on the local machine, but it would be a pain to do that for a lot of software. If you're aware of a decent tutorial on properly fixing such font issues, I'm all ears. In the interim I installed Free NX and have been trying it out with NoMachine's NX Client. It seems to work pretty well in general. I'm not clear on how NX works behind the scenes, but it looks like Mathematica is succeptable to the same font issues as it does over X forwarding. I think that NX actually forwards compressed X commands, not image data, so this makes some sense. Nick
