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RE: Newbie needs help opening browser window.
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:36:20 -0500
- Subject: RE: Newbie needs help opening browser window.
You can read more about XDMPC at Cygwin/Xfree website.
What is your remote shell? CSH or BASH. If it is bash
then you need
export DISPLAY=your_windows_ip_address:0.0
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Genisio [mailto:briangenisio@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:34 AM
> To: Raber Chris; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: briangenisio@yahoo.com
> 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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