From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 19:58:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.dhs.org (rocky.ee.cua.edu [136.242.140.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20B81532D for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:58:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sabre@sabre.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (sabre@localhost) by sabre.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17286; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:14:43 GMT (envelope-from sabre@sabre.dhs.org) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:14:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Sabre To: Khetan Gajjar Cc: Christopher Michaels , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Huming Bird Exceed with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, I do want to run the wm. Now that I'm armed with this knowledge, I'll try it out tomorrow :) This will be behind a firewall, so security isn't a big issue :) Xanks again! Sabre On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > > >Why does he need to go through all these contortions? Why can't he just > >use: > >setenv DISPLAY win98_box:0.0 > > Hmm, of course. Sorry, I assumed Sabre wanted to actually > "login" to the box and run a wm, etc, not just run applications. > It's the only use I have for Exceed - it makes a relatively decent > X-Terminal. > > My apologies. > > >That's what I do, and just run the X apps I want to run. Of course this is > >on an internal lan where security isn't an issue. > > I'm curious; could you use the Datafellows SSH Windows client and > use X11-forwarding to secure the connection ? > --- > Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za > http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za > FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ > Stupidest quote heard : Who is this BSD, and why should we free him ? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message