From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Rose Subject: Re: X servers for windows Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:44:53 -0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EF766C5.10303@shaw.ca> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030622224254.02fda870@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.1.20030622224254.02fda870@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > 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. -- Chris R. ======= http://offline.pointclark.net/ 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 :) -- Chris R. ======= http://offline.pointclark.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs