From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 0: 9:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F1D37B503 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:09:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs177.gsten.hh.se (chip@L22-212.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08786; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:09:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200102152241.f1FMfY624527@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:09:08 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Bjork To: hawk Subject: Re: cheap/free Xserver n32 for a unix-phobic administrator? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Specifically, I need them to be able to run the copy of LyX on > my box. There is a windows port of LyX, but it needs an xserver, > cignus, etc. > > There are two students writing jointly with me, and I need to be > able to edit with them-and I'm not switching these documents over > to Word . . . > > hawk > Well, if your windows computer has a good connection to the box with LyX on it then VNC will work well. LyX will actually run on the FreeBSD box but will show up on your windows machine complete with a windowmanager and everything else you might need, think "PC anywhere" done well. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 16-Feb-01 Time: 09:09:08 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message