re[2]: [SLE] Using cygwin/Xfree-86 to access Suse
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If I understand it, Xfree86 was moved into the basic cygwin release a couple of weeks ago, so you don't have to do anything special to get it. I would guess it was removed from the dedicated part of the mirrors at that time. As far as adding options after the fact, it is fairly easy. At some point when you run setup, you get a list of the packages you have installed. On this screen, there is button on the top right labelled "view". This apparently means "view all". Anyway, if you click on it, you get a list of all the packages, not just the installed ones.
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?
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True enough Greg. After downloading the X components from the ftp site they install very smoothly. Nice tool and as far as value for money goes ... - Exceed is heading for the bin :-) Damian Greg Freemyer wrote:
If I understand it, Xfree86 was moved into the basic cygwin release a couple of weeks ago, so you don't have to do anything special to get it. I would guess it was removed from the dedicated part of the mirrors at that time.
As far as adding options after the fact, it is fairly easy.
At some point when you run setup, you get a list of the packages you have installed. On this screen, there is button on the top right labelled "view". This apparently means "view all". Anyway, if you click on it, you get a list of all the packages, not just the installed ones.
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 ...?
snip ....
Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com
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