Re: [Evolution] Cygwin!

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

Another advantage to ssh -X

-Mark Gordon

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:35, Richard Crawford wrote:
> 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 BÃgfors 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