From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 20:34:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9ACB37B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 91610 invoked by uid 100); 9 Apr 2002 03:34:20 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15538.24891.775554.825548@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:34:19 -0500 To: John Mills Cc: Walter Hop , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: [ot] good Xserver for Windows 2000? In-Reply-To: References: <20020408170541.B34172-100000@small.pukruppa.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 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\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , John Mills typed: > 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. That all sounds right. Getting the servers started might be interesting in this case, but I haven't tried it so can't offer advice. > 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. Vncserver uses ~/.vnc/xstartup like .xinitrc, so you can start any wm you want in it. For performance reasons, I'd recommend a monochrome backdrop instead of a picture. > 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. Yes it's a port in net/vnc, or alternatively net/tightvnc if you expect to use it on slow connections. If you want commercial support, try net/trividavnc. There's also a gnome client in the ports tree. 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