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Chuck,
Charles E. Cooper wrote:
I've also been struggling to get a useable windows system.
I use cygwin to log into Sun systems.
I tried the startxwin.bat method and get a window up, but it won't let me redirect remote windows back to my Windows platform.
If you are doing this via telnet or ssh without the "-X" parameter, then you need to run "xhost remotemachine_ip_or_dns_name" to allow connections from that machine to your local X Server.
This method is not secure and is not recommended, but here is how to do it if you really want to know:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-telnet
I then ssh into the sun machine setenv DISPLAY machinename:0.0 textedit filename
That is silly. ssh supports "tunneling" X apps, which sends them over a secure and optionally compressed (with the "-C" parameter) channel. Here is how to use it:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh
as I can do when I use "startx"
I basically don't like the "twm" window manager, but haven't figure out how to start something better.
You really need to use startxwin.bat... it uses the "multi-window window manager" by default, which uses Windows as the window manager. Here is how to use startxwin.bat:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-bat
Finally, run setup.exe again and make sure that you have the latest packages. Let setup.exe determine what has been updated and let it install whatever it selects automatically.
Harold
Charles E. Cooper Swift Program Applied Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University (814) 865-6829 ccooper@psu.edu
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