On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:29:38PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > Nope, Your display variable must be set to the IP or hostname of the X > Server, which in this case is the Windows machine. X mangles the > client/server difference, since the box displaying teh window is teh Server > (And specified via DISPLAY) while the remote system running the apps is the > client. I got it. Daxbert suggested the simple 'who' command which I knew before, but discarded becuase it gave me the win machine -name-, but of course to unix, it knows what the IP is and looks it up;
$ who dale ttyp0 Mar 7 17:35 (192.168.1.3:0.0) david ttyp2 Mar 9 23:29 (CHANTELLE:0.0) david ttyp3 Mar 9 21:07 (CHANTELLE:0.0) david ttyp4 Mar 9 21:46 (CHANTELLE:0.0) chantelle ttyp5 Mar 9 23:25 (CHANTELLE:0.0) chantelle ttyp7 Mar 9 23:25 (CHANTELLE:0.0) In my case I had five freebsd windows running on CHANTELLE under two different user names. > > To use XWin32 (Ditch it, it's very buggy, eXceed is far superior), you need this is -very- welcome advice, becuase you are right. It is buggy, and I didn't know there was any quality alternatives. thanks - To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
