Re: Reducing configuration headaches for cygwin-xfree

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >
> > > > AFAIK, you wouldn't want to install X without also installing some
> > > > other things like bash, at least.  I would think you'd want other tools
> > > > like 'cp', as well.  Since people always complain that the minimal
> > > > installation for cygwin (which is the default) doesn't have enough
> > > > stuff in it, I don't really understand why the minimal installation + X
> > > > would have too much.
> > >
> > > One scenario is the stand-alone xserver which just acts as terminal for
> > > remote access.
> >
> > How would you manage remote access if you didn't at least have bash,
> > though?  Run xterm + cmd.exe, maybe?
> >
> > cgf
>
>
> Remote access as in running a remote xterm and displaying it on a local X.
> Either that, or XDMCP.  The first obviously also needs some other way of
> connecting to the remote machine (e.g., telnet).

Note that it also works fine with any ssh implementation, such as PuTTY.

Harold