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Re: cygwin as X terminal(s) ?
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Richard Foulk <richard at skydive1 dot com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin as X terminal(s) ?
- References: <200609241022.k8OAMvXa022538@sd.skydive1.com> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0609241009380.15013@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> This is an X-specific question, and needs to go to the Cygwin/X list.
> Redirecting.
>
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Richard Foulk wrote:
>
> > Aloha,
> >
> > As someone pointed out you can use Cygwin with X as an X terminal.
> > For remote admin of a linux/unix box that's pretty handy. By invoking
> > this command from Cygwin before starting X:
> >
> > x -broadcast
> >
> > you get a window that contains the whole remote desktop. Is there a way
> > to create multiple separate such windows/desktops on one Cygwin system?
> > That would be mighty handy for admining multiple machines.
>
> Try "X :0 -broadcast", "X :1 -broadcast", etc. For more information, see
> "man XWin".
Oops, sorry, I meant "man Xserver". Also, you might want to investigate
the "-query" option instead of "-broadcast", to have finer grained control
of which machines you'll be connecting to.
Igor
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