Just my 2cents, If your wanting to run KDE or GNOME or any X window manager (or an X app) remotely on windows, my recommendation is the free solution.Go to www.cygwin.com (A Redhat product), and install cygwin with the XFRee86 packages, as well as the SSH client.
This solution is by far the cheapest and most stable way that I have found to run an X server. I do remotely display many of my boxes onto a winodows Desktop with this solution. You have a couple choices with this scenario (cygwin). Use xhosts to allow remote displaying, and set the DISPLAY environment variable on the system with gnome or KDE to point at the IP address of the windows box. Or what I find a better solution.. Start up an X display in cygwin, and use SSH (using the -X option for X display forwarding) and log into the remote machine, and start up gnome with gnome-session, or startkde for KDE an voila mutliple. You could conceivably open up a number of X displays on windows all displaying different windows managers from remote boxes. If you wish to show off multiple window managers on most Linux distros - start up X displays (ie X :1, X :2), change the DISPLAY environment variable and then run "gnome-session", "startkde", "twm", in each of the displays you create. Then you can use Control-Alt-F7,F8, F9 (Usually the default keys for switching the graphical displays). The last alternative is the real slick one if your doing a demo (At least it gets the most oohs and awwws when I do this). Start up an X display on a Linux box that has Xnest installed on it. Load up gnome, kde or your favorite window manager. Now with a X display up, you can create Virtual displays inside a window on the current desktop by using Xnest. You can use" Xnest :1" to create a new display inside a window of the current display. So you can literally rune multiple copies of gnome, or KDE, or twm all simultaneously on the same display in different windows. Mike If you wish to On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 22:33, Trevor Lauder wrote: > You can also run KDE/Gnome, etc on a windows machine too. Same idea as > with 2 linux boxes, just get a X Server for windows and a SSH client for > windows that supports X Forwarding and you can have the Windows GUI and > KDE up and running on the same monitor at the same time. I did it once > with the windows icons on the left and KDE icons on the right. Windows > task bar on the bottom and KDE on the top. Was kind of cool looking. > Great for those times when someone absolutely needs windows for a specific > app but they can still use a Linux application server at the same time for > all the other apps :) -- Michael Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd.
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