What you need is a Xwindows package running on your laptop,
after you have it, then login on the server (putty with
Xwindows forwarding? ssh -X if you run one unix flavor)
and then in the server shell:
echo $DISPLAY
xterm &
the echo command should display something like: localhost:0.0
if the result of the echo line is something like :0.0
the xterm will be displayed at the monitor on the server.
Consider that it is possible that your server is *not* running
Xwindows and in such case the result of echo is an empty line.
hope this helps
raymundo
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
Can you run Linux on your machine?
js
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 19:57, Leo Huang wrote:
Cameron,
I'm running a RH8.0 as a server, and now I'm maintaining it over a
text-based ssh terminal on my notebook. Sometimes things are getting
complicated because of it is text-based. I want to run X on my notebook to
simplize my work.
Please tell me what I need to do.
Leo
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Leo Huang <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, 30 January 2003
17:46:
From Cameron's response, It seems I have to install
something on my local
machines??
Leo
Leo,
I think you should describe what X programs you want to run and why
you need to tunnel the X. Perhaps there are other ways of doing it.
for example VNC might be suitable.
If you have a slow connection somewhere in between your client and
server then it won't be a very pleasant experience,
although X will generally be faster than VNC.
If you are going to go the trouble of installing cygwin to get the
XFree-86 server then you might find you can get some of the X
applications to run directly on the PC (possibly still as X clients).
You could try the demo version of X-Win32 from www.starnet.com.
Cameron.
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