Thanks for that info on Cygwin/XFree86 and SSH. I didn't realise Cygwin could run XFree86, I've always used the commercial X Servers in windows.
-- Trevor Lauder Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
