From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 10:14:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB13D37B718 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30183 invoked by uid 100); 31 Mar 2001 18:14:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15046.7823.638282.579928@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:14:39 -0600 To: "S.W.Liu" Cc: "Raymond Law" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform In-Reply-To: <001401c0b9c8$4a712260$0100a8c0@y122> References: <15044.34500.749551.948609@guru.mired.org> <001401c0b9c8$4a712260$0100a8c0@y122> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi raymond - I think you might want to read this response that came to me, not -questions. types: > You can download x-win511.exe. It run on MS Windows, after you install it, you can follow the wizard to setup. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Meyer" > To: "Raymond Law" > Cc: > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:14 PM > Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform > > > > Raymond Law types: > > > I know I can use xhost to display the GUI on a local machine from a > > > remote machine. But how can I display X on a windoz box? > > > > Others have mentioned installing a X server on Windows, and I don't > > know of any non-commercial solution. > > > > A second alternative is to install a vnc server on your Unix system > > (it's in the ports), and the viewer on Windows. This gives you an X > > session in a window on the Windows box, which may be sufficient, and > > both are free. > > > > For the truly perverse, you can also install the viewer on a Palm. > > > > > -- > > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message