Presentation, April 29th: what do people want?

[Matt Holtz]

ummm... how did I end up on this list again?

I have been off it for months.

Harold Hunt wrote:
> 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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Matt Holtz
Systems Engineering Manager
CoreComm, formerly Voyager.net