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Use XFree86 on W98 to connect to AIX (WAS: Use XFree86 on W98 to connect to Linux)
- From: "Bj:o)rn Wolf (C&N-IT-BF)" <bjoern dot wolf at cun dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:09:17 +0100
- Subject: Use XFree86 on W98 to connect to AIX (WAS: Use XFree86 on W98 to connect to Linux)
- Organization: Nur Touristic GmbH
- References: <01C2BBF0.574CEEC0.fchi@fenix2.dol-esa.gov> <3E2491A3.3080408@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: bjoern dot wolf at cun dot de
If I try the ssh method to connect to an AIX machine (instead of a Linux
box),
everything seems to work fine, I even can open an xterm to display on my
local
XFree86 window.
Unfortunately, none of the remote X applications does accept any
keyboard input.
Any help or hint is very much appreciated
Bjoern Wolf
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> You can use XDMCP for a remote "session":
>
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html
>
> Or, you can launch individual clients with SSH (or you can even start a
> remote window manager which makes this very similar to XDMCP, including
> KDE... by using, for example, "startkde"):
>
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> Harold
>
> fchi wrote:
> > Is it possible to run XFree86 on W98 under Cygwin to connect to a Linux in
> > X11 sessions? We are very interested in setting up a lab where various
> > Linux boxes are clusted and the personal workstations (for various reasons)
> > are MS W98 or Windows XP.
> >
> > Any insight that you can provide will be appreciated.
> >
> > Frank Chi
> >