After re-reading your post, I found another problem with your solution. Both cygwin/X and X-deep32 Windows X servers fail miserably. The only good Windows X server that I know of is exceed; which, due to price considerations is a problem. Gilboa On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:03 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 09:54, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > I'm trying to ease the pain of using Linux. > > If I choose the tunnel-over-SSH with X-forwarding option, the first > > Windows they'll see will be an empty terminal window instead of looking > > at a full-blow-Windows-like UI. > > I really don't want to scare them off. > > No, setup scripts to run the programs you want them to run. When you > execute ssh from the windows system pass the name of the script you want > to run on the linux side. It will execute the script starting the > program you want and redirect the display back to their windows system. > > I'm not running windows on my laptop anymore but have several launchers > (icons) that I can just click to start various applications that > actually run on remote systems. No need to get a command line window to > start those applications. > >
