There's an adequate X server for windows that used to be free but is now $25 shareware:
http://www.microimages.com/mix/ it will probably do what you need. I haven't played with the cygwin one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi, > > > > I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and it is turned on > > non-stop. On the other I'm running W$ndows (mainly for games). This one is > > only running if I'm doing something on it. > > Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some > > switch, but they usually degrade image quality at high resolution (or cost a > > fortune), so I found it's much more convenient to telnet/ssh into the linux > > machine if I want to use it. I'm also want to try some free X servers for > > Win32 (any suggestions?) so that I could actually log in through X. > > Have a look at cygwin. ISTR you can run an X server under it, and > you might even be able to use openssh with X tunneling and all that. > > > Is it possible to log in through telnet and ideally also through X into the > > Linux machine, start an ftp client or irc client etc. then close the > > connection again with the started applications continueing to run? > > Yes. > > > Also if I could do that, could I then log in back again later and find the > > applications I left there and interact with them as if I hadn't left? (I > > guess this if this is possible at all, it will be more difficult with X.) > > Yes. Have a look at e.g. screen package. > > Dima > -- > Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD. -- Shmuel > Metz > "Go forth and multiply". -- Paul > Martin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
