Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

["Stuart Powell" <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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

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