[geeks] X server for Windows
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Oct 7 16:39:09 CDT 2002
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> >There was MI/X, but I heard a report that it was no longer free. Fonts
> >always caused me pain on this one.
> >
> >There is also Xfree/cygwin. It is reported to be sluggish. Never tried
> >it.
> >
> OK, I think I am messed up again. I need something that will display a
> window from my home machine (over an ssh tunnel) to my machine at work.
> So is that the X client?
The home machine being gentoo linux, and the work machine being windows
2k? Nope. You need an xserver (programs like the gimp, mozilla, etc,
are the X Clients), like Xfree/cygwin or MI/X (or eXeed for money).
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Joshua D. Boyd
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