> I don't have the Windows expertise to suggest a good X-server for it > (especially not a good *and* free one, since I assume the poverty you > mention would make a sizeable license fee a problem ... or am I assuming > too much poverty here, since x-win32 5.3 seems to have a $US225 > single-node license?). But have you considered VNC as a way to operate > your Linux box remotely from a Windows workstation?
> BTW, I routinely access my Linux hosts (traditional servers and a > development workstation) from a Windows console, just using ssh > sessions. That approach covers most of what I need to do on them. I've > used VNC and been happy with it ... what stops me from working > completely remotely is that there is no way to run XVideo remotely.
> BTW, a naive Google search ("WIndows X-server free") does turn up a few
> matches, but no true freeware that I saw (just shareware and evaluation
> copies of commercial servers, with $US90 the lowest license fee I found,
> more than the cost here of a new 17" monitor). It did report a few
> references in e-mail messages to free X servers from Cygnus and one
> other company, but they were very old messages (1998-2000) and I believe
> the products they referenced vanished from general distribution years ago.
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Ray Olszewski wrote:
I don't have the Windows expertise to suggest a good X-server for it (especially not a good *and* free one, since I assume the poverty you mention would make a sizeable license fee a problem ... or am I assuming too much poverty here, since x-win32 5.3 seems to have a $US225 single-node license?). But have you considered VNC as a way to operate your Linux box remotely from a Windows workstation?
Actually, the academic license is nice for x-win, although it was steep (thank heck for student loans!)
BTW, I routinely access my Linux hosts (traditional servers and a development workstation) from a Windows console, just using ssh sessions. That approach covers most of what I need to do on them. I've used VNC and been happy with it ... what stops me from working completely remotely is that there is no way to run XVideo remotely.
Yeah, i do that for most things as well, and it's been a great spur to learning more of the shell stuff that as a longtime windows user, i tend to shy away from. This mailing list has been another huge help in that area, especially since you personally seem to have an answer for just about everyone :)
BTW, a naive Google search ("WIndows X-server free") does turn up a few matches, but no true freeware that I saw (just shareware and evaluation copies of commercial servers, with $US90 the lowest license fee I found, more than the cost here of a new 17" monitor). It did report a few references in e-mail messages to free X servers from Cygnus and one other company, but they were very old messages (1998-2000) and I believe the products they referenced vanished from general distribution years ago.
Yeah, i've done that, and i found more or less the same thing. Specifically, though, i was looking for that one feature - the RENDER extension, which the version of X-Win32 i have doesn't support, and since i'm looking at remote access in the school year to come that bandwidth-saver is a big deal to me.
I'm hoping that some solution exists that won't totally break my bank, and of course i'd prefer free, but if need be i can kick out for another prog. The thing is, i had seen that "RENDER extension not supported" so many times and not realized what it was, until recently - and now that i know, the fact that the tool exists and doesn't work for me is going to drive me slowly batty :)
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