[ale] Windows Remoting X'ing

[James P. Kinney III]

You need something running an X server on the windows box. Yeah, I know,
it seems backwards. The server for X drives the screen, all the apps are
clients.

There are several commercial X servers for windows. Exceed and
hummingbird (are they the same? it's been a long time...) are two very
complete examples.

Cygwin now comes with XFree86 server. It works rather well. 2 years ago,
I had a cygwin/X setup on a W2K box and I compiled XFCE for it. It ran
like a top. I could then ssh to a remote *nix machines and run what ever
I wanted.

Note: startx is not the command you want to run for a remote X session.
Once you have a runing X server on the windows box, ssh to the remote
box and just run the app you want. eg. Mozilla (resource hog) or xterm
or gnucash. 

Ah, the true joy of a well designed OS. Remote execution with local
display. There are tricks to do that will compress the X data. XDPC is
the best one. It will only send the changes to the screen. It can cut
and X session data stream to almost usable over a dialup line.


On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:59, jeb wrote:
> I have a question for the list, what do I need to send x via ssh to my 
> windows box?
> 
> I have a Mandrake 10 server running ssh and x, on my windows xp box, I 
> am running putty with x11 forwarding on.  However, I login fine but when 
> I launch x as a normal user I get :
> 
> [jebba at localhost jebba]$ startx
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?xinit:  Server error.
> 
> 
> But, when I log in as root, and start x.  It runs on the server.
> 
> Hopefully this makes sense?  I am still very new to linux.  What I'm a 
> doing wrong?
> 
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