Another advantage to ssh -X -Mark Gordon
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:35, Richard Crawford wrote: > All in all, nice ideas. Except that the X connection is awfully slow, and > my home computer with Evolution on it is behind a firewall and I can't get > an X connection to it. > > > Erik Bågfors said: > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 20:26, Gerardo Marin wrote: > >> You have the chance to use cygwin X server. I use the full gnome > >> environment of my Linux machine from within cygwin. > >> As Patrick Nelson says you can use X from cygwin: > >> > >> At the cygwin prompt: > >> > >> startx > >> once X starts on cygwin, at the terminal, add your machine as xhost > >> > >> xhost + my_machine > >> ssh your_machine > >> on your_machine: > >> > >> export DISPLAY=win_machine:0 > >> gnome-session > > > > That's a great way of NOT running X over ssh. > > > > ssh -X your_machine > > > > on your_machine > > gnome-session > > > > will give you ssh tunneling for X as well. > > > > /Erik _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
