On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:24:39PM +0000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I figure that some of you may find this useful > > > > I have put together a small package of X (from cygwin) and putty that > > should allow you to use a minimal X server from any win32 computer. > > > > I put only the minimal required fonts, as most recent programs use > > client-side rendering and will do without server fonts. It only has > > 'fixed' and 'cursor'. > > Tsafrir > > Can you elaborate how this is different from cygwin itself? Cygwin > offers both an X server and ssh. And you can choose to install only > the components you are interested in. Why something special?
I wanted to take the minimal required just to run an X server and connecto to it from a remote client. ssh is the obvious choce for a transport. Do you really need 15MB of fonts directories if almost all the programs you need use client-side rendering? I was surprised to see that I only needed 4 cyg-dlls. > Why putty > and not openssh (from cygwin itself)? What are the advantages? It is smaller. It knows where to put its temporary files. I did not want to assume I have cygwin's /tmp avialble. I wanted to assume nothing about cygwin's config. I run X with '-nolisten local' so it won't create sockets under /tmp . > > FWIW I use cygwin to open ssh/X connections to remote Linux computers > from Windows from time to time. Linux-to-Linux works better, but > cygwin-to-linux is usable. I wanted to skip the "installation" stage, and assume nothing about existing cygwin mounts. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
