Presentation, April 29th: what do people want?

[Harold Hunt]

Oh yeah, it runs lots of programs; almost any program for X can be, or has
been, ported to Cygwin/XFree86.

However, I don't run many local clients with Cygwin/XFree86; rather, I
primarily use Cygwin/XFree86 to display clients running on my Linux box, so
I don't have to switch keyboards, or go into the other room to use my Linux
machine.  There are two ways that I know of to do this, one using xhost to
allow another machine to display clients on your X server, and the other
using xdmcp, which allows you to login to an X session on a remote machine.
Of course, you can display X clients from any *nix machine, not just Linux
machines.

I have documented the xhost method at:
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/docs/howto/using-remote-apps.html

I will be documenting xdmcp soon, but the following should probably get you
started; in startxwin.bat:
start XWin -screen 0 800x600x16 -from %WINDOWS_HOST_NAME% -query
%UNIX_HOST_NAME%

Substitute the appropriate host names in the above statement.

Be sure not to run local clients, as they will not be allowed to connect to
an X server that is running an xdmcp session.

Thanks for your interest in the project,

Harold


-----Original Message-----
From: Keyes, Randall [mailto:randall.keyes@jnli.com]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 3:31 PM
To: 'Harold Hunt'
Subject: RE: Presentation, April 29th: what do people want?


I have loaded this app on my machine here at work, and it seems to function
well.  My comment as a Linux/UNIX newbie is:  Great, now what do I do with
it?  Does it run anything?
I know you'll have an answer for me.  :)
Randy Keyes
Network Services, JNL
randall.keyes@jnli.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 3:25 PM
To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
Subject: RE: Presentation, April 29th: what do people want?


Matt,
<shameless-plug>
Well, don't forget to mention Cygwin/XFree86, which is now stable on Windows
95 or later.  :)
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
</shameless-plug>
Harold
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