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Re: Newbie needs help opening browser window.
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: Raber Chris <cpraber at yahoo dot com>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: briangenisio at yahoo dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:33:51 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Newbie needs help opening browser window.
So did you try running an XDMCP desktop with the command line interface that I
mentioned in the last mail?
Brian
--- Raber Chris <cpraber@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> >
> > Well, running a browser should be as easy as running
> it with
> > a display set :
> >
> > netscape -display winmachine:0
>
> Tried this, does not work. No window ever is
> displayed.
>
> >
> > Or setting the display variable, and running
> netscape :
> >
> > setenv DISPLAY winmachine:0
> > netscape
>
> Same problem.
>
> >
> > To run XDMCP, if you have it enabled in the linux
> box (I think most
> > distributions have it on by default), simply use the
>
> > following command line
> > variables when starting the X server (This is in the
> user's manual):
> >
> > -query linuxIP -from windowsIP
> >
> > Brian
>
>
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