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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:21:01 -0500
From: Ken Jackson <ken22@bcpl.net>
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  Cygwin/XFree86 is a port of XFree86 to the Microsoft Windows
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  xterm, xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, and xeyes.

-Ken Jackson

Tim Peters writes:
 > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:53:30PM -0800, Hugo Saro wrote:
 > > Is it possible to 'startx' and view the graphical
 > > environment from a windows workstation connected to a
 > > freebsd box? if yes, how?
 > 
 > Not directly; when you run startx it will run an X server on the
 > freebsd box and that will only display stuff on a directly connected
 > monitor..
 > 
 > What you need to do is run an X server on the windows machine, then
 > set the DISPLAY environment variable on the freebsd box to something
 > like "windowsbox:0.0" (or tunnel it through ssh).  The only x server
 > for windows I know of is eXcursion, but there may be others.
 > 
 > HTH,
 > 
 > -tim


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