From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 9:49: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A019B37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02126; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:49:48 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:49:48 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: Walter Hop Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: [ot] good Xserver for Windows 2000? In-Reply-To: <20020408170541.B34172-100000@small.pukruppa.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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