On Wednesday 26 October 2005 13:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Short answer: install cygwin on your windows machine, making sure to > > > install whatever X server is included with it. > > > > [snip] > > > > I don't believe that this is the answer. Cygwin allows the windows > > machine to have a unix-api and for it to run unix programs. It does not > > do what cxoffice does for linux machines. > > It doesn't do what cxoffice does, but it does what the original poster > asked - i.e. to be able to login remotely to a linux machine from Windows > and run a graphics interface on the Linux which displays its windows on the > Windows machine. > > In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from your > definition of Gygwin as a simple "unix-api") then it also includes a full > port of the core XFree86 to Windows.
True True, but he was aleady using vnc, so if he wanted a window manager, he already had one! No arguments about cygwin, I found vnc easier if all you want is a window manager. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
