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Date: | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:00:39 -0700 |
From: | Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: Convert an old Laptop into an X Terminal |
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Bbn wrote: > > I have an old laptop with a broken hard-drive. I want to boot it with a very > light linux, like ubuntu or Kaella (Knoppix for french). Then, I want to > connect to my XP desktop using cygwin. If you mean that you want to display your native Windows desktop on the laptop running linux, then that's impossible with X11. You must use rdp or vnc, which are both unrelated to cygwin. If you mean that you want to ssh into your desktop from the laptop and then run Cygwin apps on the desktop with the DISPLAY set to the laptop's X11 server, then that will work fine. There's nothing cygwin specific about this, other than perhaps installing sshd (run ssh-host-config script.) Then ssh as you would to any other unix system. See the Cygwin/X faq. If you have further questions relating to X11 and Cygwin then you should use the cygwin-xfree (at) cygwin.com list instead of this one. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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