Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin
Wrong list. All questions about X on Cygwin should be directed to cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com. Redirecting... Igor On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Bullock wrote: This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product. Background: With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that needs to access the Internet. This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a huge headache. What I desire. I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows box. When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice. First off is this possible? and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen. I do not want to have to run the entire terminal client. Currently, what we have tested is from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser. Regards, Chris -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin
This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product. Background: With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that needs to access the Internet. This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a huge headache. What I desire. I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows box. When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice. First off is this possible? and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen. I do not want to have to run the entire terminal client. Currently, what we have tested is from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser. Regards, Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin
* Chris Bullock (2004-03-23 15:14 +0100) Background: With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that needs to access the Internet. This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a huge headache. What I desire. I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows box. When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice. First off is this possible? and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen. I do not want to have to run the entire terminal client. Currently, what we have tested is from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser. Start X, login to the terminal server via ssh, start the browser with the DISPLAY variable set to the Cygwin X server. That's it. All you have to do is to automate this: the ssh-session into the startup file of your X server or Windowmanager. None of this is Cygwin specific (except the link to the the .bat to start the X server) Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin
Wrong list. All questions about X on Cygwin should be directed to cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com. Redirecting... Igor On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Bullock wrote: This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product. Background: With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that needs to access the Internet. This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a huge headache. What I desire. I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows box. When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice. First off is this possible? and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen. I do not want to have to run the entire terminal client. Currently, what we have tested is from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser. Regards, Chris -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
