[Wolves] Cygwin/X

[David Goodwin]

Aquarius wrote:
> Anyone tried Cygwin/X? I'm thinking of sshing into my home machine from
> my work Windows box, forwarding X along that ssh (putty) connection,
> and displaying X apps running on my home box in their own window on my
> Windows machine at work. (So they look like native Windows apps.) Does
> this work like it should? Is it acceptably fast?
> 
> Aq.
> 

You could take the easier option and get an x server for windows (e.g. 
eXceed).

I've never installed cyg-win, so don't know how easy/difficult it is.


Compression with X (ssh -C -X) makes quite a difference - I've found - 
and makes X mostly usable over an adsl line.

However, there is a nifty program called "nx" which does far superior 
compression than ssh can do (i..e you can use X over a 56k modem). The 
people upstairs demonstrated this to me the other day, where a full 
screen X desktop using gnome ran over a 128k isdn line and appeared just 
as responsive as a local system. It was very impressive.

See : http://www.nomachine.com/ (I think)

have fun,

David.