re[2]: [SLE] Using cygwin/Xfree-86 to access Suse
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First, Thanks Steinar. It is working for me now, but it is not working cleanly yet. I'll worry about that later though. For Doug, What I was attempting, and have now just done for the first time is run KDE on the SuSE box, but display it on my Win98 box. (I'm too lazy to walk into the other room.) I don't know if there is a Cygwin KDE port or not. The below steps worked for me and do what I wanted: 1) Install XFree86 as part of the standard/base Cygwin release. 2) cd /usr/X11R6/bin 3) ./startxwin.sh 4) Wait for a bash window to open up inside a X display. Inside the new window: 5) ./xhost + # This disables all access checks to your X display. If you are not in a secure environment, you can be specific about who you allow access. 6) ssh suse_server # connect to you suse box in text mode. In the same window, but now on the SuSE box: 7) DISPLAY="10.0.0.x:0.0" # This is the IP of your Windows box, followed by :0.0 to say which X instance to use. 8) export DISPLAY 9) kde Steps 7 & 8 should not be required, but something is apparently wrong on my box, or with the generic X/ssh setup.
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 Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com
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Alternatively, how about /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -query suse_server.domain or /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin :0 -query suse_server.domain to get a remote login window via XDMCP Greg Freemyer wrote:
First, Thanks Steinar.
It is working for me now, but it is not working cleanly yet. I'll worry about that later though.
For Doug,
What I was attempting, and have now just done for the first time is run KDE on the SuSE box, but display it on my Win98 box. (I'm too lazy to walk into the other room.)
I don't know if there is a Cygwin KDE port or not.
The below steps worked for me and do what I wanted:
1) Install XFree86 as part of the standard/base Cygwin release.
2) cd /usr/X11R6/bin
3) ./startxwin.sh
4) Wait for a bash window to open up inside a X display.
Inside the new window: 5) ./xhost + # This disables all access checks to your X display. If you are not in a secure environment, you can be specific about who you allow access.
6) ssh suse_server # connect to you suse box in text mode.
In the same window, but now on the SuSE box: 7) DISPLAY="10.0.0.x:0.0" # This is the IP of your Windows box, followed by :0.0 to say which X instance to use.
8) export DISPLAY
9) kde
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