Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread Mel
On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:35:00 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios equipment that require a web interface. My first attempt

Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 9/23/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:35:00 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios equipment that

Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 23 September 2007, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration, you may need to tinker with the settings a bit.

Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread Mel
On Sunday 23 September 2007 18:54:28 dgmm wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration,

Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:35:00 -0700 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'm not too sure, what you are trying to do here. If you want to run a program or an entire desktop on one computer and