Re: [SLE] Using cygwin/Xfree-86 to access Suse X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre5 Whoa, back up here! You guys are way ahead of me. I have cygwin installed on my machine at work, to play with, more than anything. (I would like to learn C with it.) Somehow, I got what appeared to be X up, but with NO GUI, just a gray screen with an X cursor. I'm not really sure what I did to do that, but it was NOT "startx." Now you folks are mentioning KDE--where do you get KDE for cygwin, or what binaries must be compiled to run it, or--you get the idea--I'm 10 paces behind! --doug At 09:31 05/27/2002 +0000, Damian Ohara wrote:
This sounds great guys but I assume that you've found an ftp server that offers the X subsystem ?
When I ran setup last week, every ftp site I connected to (and I tried 7 of them) said that X was n/a.
I assumed then that only the base Cygwin installation was avaiable so went with that. An interesting diversion but without the X client it's no better than telnet from a Win98 box for me.
Am I looking in the wrong place ?
I also can't seem to find a way to add features without re-installing the whole shooting match ...?
Thanks,
Damian
Steinar Saetre wrote:
Try : kde & in Your ssh terminal. It works for me.. ss
On Friday 24 May 2002 19:11, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Guys,
Someone recently suggested XFree-86 under Cygwin is the best way to
access
the SuSE GUI.
I've installed it and I can:
startxwin.sh xhost + ssh SuSE-box DISPLAY=... xeyes
and it works.
What I prefer to do, is run the whole KDE desktop via XFree-86, but I forgotten the command.
I thought it was "XWin -query server_name", but that is not working.
Can someone give me that again?
Thanks Greg ===== Greg Freemyer
Hello, Doug. I think you'll find that this thread mainly revolved around using Cygwin as a freely available X client. To this end, KDE is not being run under Cygwin on the Windows machine, it is connecting as a remote X server to a machine offering the KDE desktop via XDMCP. KDE and all the apps are then running on the server you connect to, with the graphical output being piped back to the Cygwin X server for display. When I first installed Cygwin, I installed a lot of stuff I didn't need. I have since used the Cygwin implementation of XFree86 to demonstrate the use of Windows as an X client, somewhat akin to Windows Terminal Server/Citrix if you are familiar with those. This functionality is built into a regular Linux setup, but Windows X clients (Hummingbird etc.) are notoriously expensive , so Cygwin offers a very interesting, and potentially cost effective, alternative. By the way, the command I use to connect to the server from the Windows box is: C:\path\to\cygwin\files> Xwin -query hostname As long as hostname is setup to respond to remote X sessions, the kdm/xdm login should pop up. I don't know if this helps you or not, but I hope it does. Bye for now, Stuart. <snip> Whoa, back up here! You guys are way ahead of me. I have cygwin installed on my machine at work, to play with, more than anything. (I would like to learn C with it.) Somehow, I got what appeared to be X up, but with NO GUI, just a gray screen with an X cursor. I'm not really sure what I did to do that, but it was NOT "startx." Now you folks are mentioning KDE--where do you get KDE for cygwin, or what binaries must be compiled to run it, or--you get the idea--I'm 10 paces behind! --doug </snip>
On Saturday 08 June 2002 21:13, Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello, Doug.
I think you'll find that this thread mainly revolved around using Cygwin as a freely available X client. To this end, KDE is not being run under Cygwin on the Windows machine, it is connecting as a remote X server to a machine offering the KDE desktop via XDMCP. KDE and all the apps are then running on the server you connect to, with the graphical output being piped back to the Cygwin X server for display.
When I first installed Cygwin, I installed a lot of stuff I didn't need. I have since used the Cygwin implementation of XFree86 to demonstrate the use of Windows as an X client, somewhat akin to Windows Terminal Server/Citrix if you are familiar with those. This functionality is built into a regular Linux setup, but Windows X clients (Hummingbird etc.) are notoriously expensive , so Cygwin offers a very interesting, and potentially cost effective, alternative.
By the way, the command I use to connect to the server from the Windows box is:
C:\path\to\cygwin\files> Xwin -query hostname
As long as hostname is setup to respond to remote X sessions, the kdm/xdm login should pop up.
I don't know if this helps you or not, but I hope it does.
Bye for now, Stuart.
I just saw this. I haven't been keeping up with this list lately, so a lot has scrolled by. I know this is a bit of a stale thread, but I have to say, the KDE *_DOES_* run on WindozeXP. http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ I have this running, but I don't have a lot of use for it right now. It's only KDE2.2.2. There were problems with displaying clients from my SuSE 8 box. I could not see any fonts, nor the folder icons. I spent about 60 seconds on it, rebooted this machine and installed SuSE 8 on the best hard drive.
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