[expert] Xwindow display quality. fonts

2001-02-18 Thread Neal Lippman
One thing I have noticed is that the "quality" of my display, by which I mean the sharpness of text on the screen and the quality of the fonts, just doesn't seem as good under X as it does under Windows booted on the same system. (For reference, I am using KDE 2.0, mdk 7.2 with kernel upgraded

[expert] Xwindow graphic

2000-10-29 Thread Ti Nu
Hi I am using Mandrake 7.1, I am using Trident Blade 3D video card and a generic monitor. Although I config it right (I think) but I still get a very bad graphic. Does anyone know the way to chose the best graphic for it ( When I install, the installation graphic was very great). Also does anyone

Re: [expert] Xwindow graphic

2000-10-29 Thread Michael Proto
Try drakxconf, should be in /usr/sbin/. M. Ti Nu wrote: Hi I am using Mandrake 7.1, I am using Trident Blade 3D video card and a generic monitor. Although I config it right (I think) but I still get a very bad graphic. Does anyone know the way to chose the best graphic for it ( When

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen F Bosch wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Better yet, use ssh to make your console connections to the remote machine. ssh will do two nice things: 1) ssh will by default set your DISPLAY variable when you connect 2) ssh does display forwarding so

[expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Dave Peat
Does anyone know of a Xwindow program that I can use to Xwindow from one Linux box to another. Right now I can use Exceed on Windoze and run a xsession to my Linux box. I want to do the same from one Linux box to another. Thanks, Dave Registered User # 184784

RE: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Lyle
I have been using VNC. A tad clunky, but works well and the price is right. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/xvncviewer.html -Original Message-[Lyle] From: Dave Peat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:51 AMTo: Subject: [expert] Xwindow Does

RE: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
xhost (man xhost) to allow a connection from the remote computer. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Lyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:55 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Xwindow I have been using VNC. A tad clunky, but works well

Re:[expert]Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
This bit from linux.com sounds like what you're looking for. Gene http://linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/001906.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Stephen Bosch
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: XWindows was designed around Unix. Just set the DISPLAY environment variable at the command (telnet) prompt before starting the program that uses X. The format is host:session where session is usually 0. e.g. DISPLAY=192.168.1.5:0 If the X command

RE: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Stew Benedict
You don't need a special program. X is DESIGNED to do this: telnet other.machine (or rsh or ssh) export DISPLAY=my.machine:0 xterm (or gimp or whatever) Stew Benedict 11:37am up 2 days, 20:19, 2 users, load average: 1.21, 1.95, 1.91 Have you had your Open Source today? if

RE: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Dave Peat
: [expert] Xwindow Does anyone know of a Xwindow program that I can use to Xwindow from one Linux box to another. Right now I can use Exceed on Windoze and run a xsession to my Linux box. I want to do the same from one Linux box to another. Thanks, Dave Registered User

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen Bosch wrote: "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: XWindows was designed around Unix. Just set the DISPLAY environment variable at the command (telnet) prompt before starting the program that uses X. The format is host:session where session is usually 0. e.g.

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
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Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Sarang Lakare
Dave, VNC is for those _crappy_ OSes that do now have XWindows inbuilt.. Linux and other Unices have XWindows builtin... thus it dosn't matter what machine u are running the program on.. u can always just telnet/ssh to taht machine and run the program there, but the display will be on u're

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread lselinger
) Subject: Re: [expert] Xwindow Um.ok no need to get rude people

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Pierre Fortin wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Better yet, use ssh to make your console connections to the remote machine. ssh will do two nice things: 1) ssh will by default set your DISPLAY variable when you connect 2) ssh does display forwarding so that all your X traffic is

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Sarang Lakare wrote: Dave, VNC is for those _crappy_ OSes that do now have XWindows inbuilt.. Linux and other Unices have XWindows builtin... thus it dosn't matter what machine u are running the program on.. u can always just telnet/ssh to taht machine and run the program there, but the

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread BillK
vnc is not crap - its actually quite a lot faster over a modem connection than pure X when the app has a complicated graphical display. It also has the advantage that if a modem drops out or you want to move to a different machine, the session and all apps are still active on reconnect. Then

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread john bodanske
The guys at www.ltsp.org are using VNC sometimes as a faster way to X serve - Original Message - From: Dave Peat To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:29 PM Subject: RE: [expert] Xwindow I actually use VNC as well, but it is more