[SunHELP] Xserver for M$ Summary

[Will Yardley]

David Baldwin wrote:

> I only got a few responses on this one.
> Looks like VNC is the best option in this case.  It's free,
> multi-platform and it works.  Seems like the best way to get a complete
> cde desktop as well.

perhaps, but i still think that using cygwin's XFree86 port will be
faster.

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/

you can query a remote server to run an X session off quite easily, and
it works nicely.

here's a screenshot of me running X off of a linux box at work on a
windows box running XFree. (the window manager is fvwm)

http://infinitejazz.net/will/geek/xwin.jpg

fvwm and some other window managers will compile as well, so in theory
you can run X natively on the windows machine too.

exceed (what most people at my work use for this type of thing) can do a
few extra things.  you can paste between the windows desktop and the X
session for example.  there's a program that's supposed to do this for
the cygwin XFree, but IIRC it's still beta (and i wasn't able to get it
working easily). i didn't really try that hard since i don't run windows
and was just setting this up to test things out mostly.

not that i would encourage illegal behaviour, but i'd imagine that there
are pirated versions of exceed out there somewhere.

sorry i didn't have more info in my last post, but i was on a console
login at a remote location and couldn't easily find the relevant links.

you will most likely have to write a simple batch file to run the
correct X query sequence to the server.  installing all the cygwin stuff
is REALLY easy (it has a graphical installer), and i've found it to be
of very high quality.  if you have to run windows, it's almost a
necessity.  it's very nice (and also amusing) to be able to do:
c:\ bash
Administrator at machine$ 

from a dos prompt.

w

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