From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 13:33:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7421837B71A for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 85568 invoked by uid 100); 1 Apr 2001 20:33:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15047.37002.241167.451345@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:33:14 -0500 To: "Doug Young" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform In-Reply-To: <54199209@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young types: > There doesn't appear to be any documentation on configuring remote X > installations, at least nowhere I've > looked to date. I've ordered the System Administrator book but it hasn't > turned up yet .... is that issue covered therein ?? X is just like any other port - it's documented by the people who provided it. In this case, the X man page covers it in the section labelled "DISPLAY NAMES". For most uses, simply set the environment variable DISPLAY to "remotehost:0.0", or start the application with "-display remotehost:0.0". If the application is a terminal emulator, it should set the DISPLAY variable for other applications you launch from it. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Meyer" > To: "S.W.Liu" > Cc: "Raymond Law" ; > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 4:14 AM > Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform > > > > Hi raymond - I think you might want to read this response that came to > > me, not -questions. > > > > > > > S.W.Liu types: > > > You can download x-win511.exe. It run on MS Windows, after you install > it, you can follow the wizard to setup. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Mike Meyer" > > > To: "Raymond Law" > > > Cc: > > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:14 PM > > > Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform > > > > > > > > > > Raymond Law types: > > > > > I know I can use xhost to display the GUI on a local machine from a > > > > > remote machine. But how can I display X on a windoz box? > > > > > > > > Others have mentioned installing a X server on Windows, and I don't > > > > know of any non-commercial solution. > > > > > > > > A second alternative is to install a vnc server on your Unix system > > > > (it's in the ports), and the viewer on Windows. This gives you an X > > > > session in a window on the Windows box, which may be sufficient, and > > > > both are free. > > > > > > > > For the truly perverse, you can also install the viewer on a Palm. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message