Re: [Evolution] Cygwin!

[Erik Bågfors <erik bagfors nu>]

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 20:26, Gerardo Marin wrote:
> You have the chance to use cygwin X server. I use the full gnome
> environment of my Linux machine from within cygwin.
> As Patrick Nelson says you can use X from cygwin:
>
> At the cygwin prompt:
>
> startx
> once X starts on cygwin, at the terminal, add your machine as xhost
>
> xhost + my_machine
> ssh your_machine
> on your_machine:
>
> export DISPLAY=win_machine:0
> gnome-session

That's a great way of NOT running X over ssh.

ssh -X your_machine

on your_machine
gnome-session

will give you ssh tunneling for X as well.

/Erik

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