Sadly enough, I have severe problems with Cygwin/X performance (slow as hell) and stability (tearing, lack of updates when Windows moves, etc). Gilboa On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 11:23 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03Nov2005 16:54, Gilboa Davara <gilboada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > If you really don't want to scare them off, running a rootless Cygwin/X server > will let you pop up X client on their totally familiar Windows desktop. > > Roll a few icons that ssh to the Linux box and run the GUI app pointed back > at their Windows PC - the X11 forward will do this for you. > > Or are you trying to entice them with a nice non-Windows desktop? > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? > --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. >
