-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes you do need to have X running on the local machine. This is still not a problem on windows machines if you use cygwin and install the xserver. If you poke around you find a ton of apps ported to cygwin that are not part of the default distro. Cygwin can be found at http://www.cygwin.com/
Also, when apps remotely, consider compressing the ssh stream with -C so an example command might be ssh -C -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] One more caveat, some distros turn off X forwarding by default (like Debian) so you must make changes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to make sure the option X11Forwarding is set to yes. As an alternative consider downloading and using NXServer/NXClient from http://nomachine.com The client is free, and the libraries are GPL'd, which means that you can buy the server from them or google for the GPL'd server (done by someone else use their GPL'd libs) I use this because is far faster on slimmer pipes. Cheers, On January 30, 2005 12:15 am, Shawn wrote: > I'm not completley sure, but I don't think so. If I'm understanding the > process properly, the xwindows server on the remote box does all the work, > then passes the results to the display. In this case you've asked for the > display to be on your local box.... > > I was trying this out with Yast on the rack mount server that I was > building. The data and speed of the resulting window was very specific to > that server, not my local computer.... So I think this is added proof.... > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.... > > Shawn > > On Sunday 30 January 2005 00:09, Niels Voll wrote: > > don't you need x windows on the local machine? > - -- No trees were harmed in the transmission of this message, however a large number of electrons were seriously inconvenienced. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCBmkiwRXgH3rKGfMRAsTbAJwI2GkFYXF7AZ8CBduJAZ4GMbOWaQCePcm/ 5zwMXVVnkih7kUm31yxdHcw= =mmnA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
