On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:29:30PM +0200, Maarika Traat wrote: > Hello! > > I am a complete newcomer to the Cygwin community. I installed the > default packages yesterday, and am now trying to understand what and > how I can really do. Can I, in principle, see the display of any > application I run on the remote server? For example, should I be able > to see the display of Mozilla that I run remotely? (At the moment this > attempt has failed.) Or are there special packages I should download > in order to be able to do this? In general - can you suggest any > helpful sources (besides the User Guide and the FAQ on Cywin/X page) > where I can check which packages I should download for which > applications? > Yes, you should be able to see any program that normally runs on the 'local' screen on the remote system on your Windows PC that's running Cywin/X instead.
Remember that 'server' and 'client' are probably not the way you think they are. The server is your windows PC that you are looking at that is running Cywin/X. The client is the application running on the remote Linux/Unix/OtherX system. You shouldn't need any more packages assuming you have downloaded the default set. I run my whole Linux desktop on my Windows PC without problems using Cygwin/X (and xdm on the remote Linux system). -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/