Re: [Evolution] Cygwin!

["Richard Crawford" <rscrawford mossroot com>]

All in all, nice ideas.  Except that the X connection is awfully slow, and
my home computer with Evolution on it is behind a firewall and I can't get
an X connection to it.


Erik Bågfors said:
> 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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