X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:10:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: Richard Foulk cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin as X terminal(s) ? In-Reply-To: <200609241022.k8OAMvXa022538@sd.skydive1.com> Message-ID: References: <200609241022.k8OAMvXa022538@sd.skydive1.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com This is an X-specific question, and needs to go to the Cygwin/X list. Redirecting. On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Richard Foulk wrote: > Aloha, > > As someone pointed out you can use Cygwin with X as an X terminal. > For remote admin of a linux/unix box that's pretty handy. By invoking > this command from Cygwin before starting X: > > x -broadcast > > you get a window that contains the whole remote desktop. Is there a way > to create multiple separate such windows/desktops on one Cygwin system? > That would be mighty handy for admining multiple machines. Try "X :0 -broadcast", "X :1 -broadcast", etc. For more information, see "man XWin". HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/