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Re: Fwd: Mozilla, etc. via Cygwin/X
- From: Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:51:48 +0000
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Mozilla, etc. via Cygwin/X
- References: <a05bd60b0601170323t26bdc2b5v9506a52a8a8c9c2e@mail.gmail.com> <a05bd60b0601170329h640d5f87qa2df19fc494f5f72@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:29:30PM +0200, Maarika Traat wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am a complete newcomer to the Cygwin community. I installed the
> default packages yesterday, and am now trying to understand what and
> how I can really do. Can I, in principle, see the display of any
> application I run on the remote server? For example, should I be able
> to see the display of Mozilla that I run remotely? (At the moment this
> attempt has failed.) Or are there special packages I should download
> in order to be able to do this? In general - can you suggest any
> helpful sources (besides the User Guide and the FAQ on Cywin/X page)
> where I can check which packages I should download for which
> applications?
>
Yes, you should be able to see any program that normally runs on the
'local' screen on the remote system on your Windows PC that's running
Cywin/X instead.
Remember that 'server' and 'client' are probably not the way you think
they are. The server is your windows PC that you are looking at that
is running Cywin/X. The client is the application running on the
remote Linux/Unix/OtherX system.
You shouldn't need any more packages assuming you have downloaded the
default set.
I run my whole Linux desktop on my Windows PC without problems using
Cygwin/X (and xdm on the remote Linux system).
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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