Charles E. Cooper wrote:
I've also been struggling to get a useable windows system. I use cygwin to log into Sun systems.
I tried the startxwin.bat method and get a window up, but it won't let me redirect remote windows back to my Windows platform.
If you are doing this via telnet or ssh without the "-X" parameter, then you need to run "xhost remotemachine_ip_or_dns_name" to allow connections from that machine to your local X Server.
This method is not secure and is not recommended, but here is how to do it if you really want to know:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-telnet
I then ssh into the sun machine
setenv DISPLAY machinename:0.0
textedit filename
That is silly. ssh supports "tunneling" X apps, which sends them over a secure and optionally compressed (with the "-C" parameter) channel. Here is how to use it:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh
as I can do when I use "startx"
I basically don't like the "twm" window manager, but haven't figure out how to start something better.
You really need to use startxwin.bat... it uses the "multi-window window manager" by default, which uses Windows as the window manager. Here is how to use startxwin.bat:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-bat
Finally, run setup.exe again and make sure that you have the latest packages. Let setup.exe determine what has been updated and let it install whatever it selects automatically.
Harold
