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Re: need GUI connect-to-host client
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, gry at ll dot mit dot edu
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:42:25 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: need GUI connect-to-host client
- References: <20040929110139.6963b2a9.gry@ll.mit.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, george young wrote:
> [Xwin 6.8.1.0-1, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows or cygwin hacker]
>
> I'm hoping to replace Hummingbird Exceed on our ~50 PC's with cygwin-xfree,
> but I need a simple GUI client for our linux-naive users. Just a little
> GUI client that the user double-clicks and asks for host, username, and
> password and fires up an xterm or other X process on a remote machine
> with rexec or ssh. I would like to come up with something that does not
> require extra languages or libraries beyond what the PC's have by default,
> or at worst, things that can be loaded from the cygwin installer along with
> xfree. I may finally be forced to learn Java...
Maybe this is of interest: http://xlauncher.sourceforge.net/
About Frontends to Cygwin/X:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00002.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-06/msg00063.html
bye
ago
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