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Re: Initiating a remote X session
- From: Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:46:53 +0000
- Subject: Re: Initiating a remote X session
- References: <400E9ABA.6070103@uoguelph.ca>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: chris dot green at isbd dot co dot uk
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:28:58AM -0500, Steve Howie wrote:
>
> We currently use X-Win32 which has a nifty feature for getting around
> this - you can specify $MYIP:0 which picks up the current IP address of
> the X-server and passes it to the session definition which is sent to
> the host which will run the application.
>
Another 'emigrant' from X-Win32, welcome! :-)
I have recently changed because X-Win32 was becoming a bit expensive
for a home (sort of SoHo) user. Cygwin seems to be just as good, and
the clipboard handling is better now.
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)