[geeks] Remote GNOME via Cygwin/X

[Phil Stracchino]

Mark Benson wrote:
> Is it possible to start a full-blown GNOME X desktop on a remote PC over 
> SSH? I have a remote machine running OSol 2008.11 and want to work 
> graphically via Cygwin/X at least to start with.

Data point:

My finding is that the Mozilla Foundation public Firefox binary, started
over an SSH connection to a remote host, works and displays properly on
my local desktop.  A Firebox binary locally compiled on that same host
with Gnome support does not.


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