Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:49:48 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [ot] good Xserver for Windows 2000? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204081228310.2098-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <20020408170541.B34172-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
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Hello - On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Walter Hop wrote: > I'm looking for a good X server (possibly commercial) to display X > applications from my FreeBSD box on a Windows 2000 terminal. > Who has used/can recommend a good X server? I am setting up some Linux hosts which will be used by developers from their MsWin desktops. I am recommending they try VNC ([http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc]) for logins. To my understanding, MsWin users run a VNC _client_ to their Unix account, where they have previously started the server (_and_ the window manager). The server exports an X-Window System $DISPLAY, against which the user has assigned a password. I expect you can start a number of such servers from init (one per user, to predefined values of $DISPLAY), but I haven't tried it. The user's config file offers 'twm' and 'mwm' as window-manager options, the default being 'twm'. I suppose others could be used - 'fvwm' comes to mind - but I haven't tried this, either. The VNC server and client are included in the RH-7.2 installation - I'm too green at FreeBSD to know if it has a port, or where. At any rate, the price is right, sources are [GPL-] free, and the connection can run through SSH. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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