[NTLUG:Discuss] Xwindows servers and clients...

Courtney Grimland cgrimland at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 21 13:31:19 CDT 2002


sorry again - i re-read the original post and my first response was right.
just ignore me folks, nothing remarkable here.  clients, servers, x servers,
x clients...it gets mixed up in my head sometimes.

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Courtney Grimland
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
>Of Courtney Grimland
>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:16 PM
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Xwindows servers and clients...
>
>
>Sorry - I mis-typed that.  Use Cygwin to connect to the X-server on the
>other computer.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
>>Of Courtney Grimland
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:11 PM
>>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Xwindows servers and clients...
>>
>>
>>Not that I'm against /other people/ setting up dual-boot systems,
>>I think it
>>would be much cleaner to set up cygwin (unless for some reason
>cygwin won't
>>work on XP - I have no idea) and use it as a native X server on
>>your laptop.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
>>>Of Tom Woody
>>>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:57 PM
>>>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Xwindows servers and clients...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At work I have a very nice linux workstation (dual Athlons, lots
>>>of ram, etc) - very nice.  I also have a laptop which isn't too
>>>shabby, but obviously lacks some of the features of a desktop
>>>(diskspace being the most prominent).  I would like to setup a
>>>small linux partition on my laptop (the rest is WinXP for games,
>>>and the like) so I can run Xwindows from my workstation, but still
>>>allow me to be mobile.  So when I am running Xwindows everything
>>>that I am doing is on my workstation.  I know this seems like
>>>pretty newbie questions - but I have been using Linux/Unix for
>>>quite a while - years - but primarily in shell not in X so any
>>>pointers are helpful.
>>>
>>>Woody
>>>
>>>If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
>>>find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
>>>		--Scott Adams
>>>
>>>
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