[Cumbria] re the RH SuSe 'discussion'

Schwuk cumbria at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jan 6 14:50:02 2003


> The nice thing about X though is its network transparency -- you can
> have  a really old box with just vanilla X, and run all your apps on a
> powerful  system, sending the graphics down the network line. Seeing
> Mozilla on an  8M machine is cool :)

Just discovered the joys of this. I have WiFi at home now, but no shared
'net connection: for some reason I refuse to run ICS on a windows box (can't
think why *grin*), and I haven't got around to building my ISDN gateway
(major headaches playing with LEAF/LRP). Imagine my joy when using my WiFi'd
laptop to SSH to my desktop (w/ISDN connection), firing up neat-control and
getting control over my ISDN connection. Things like GAIM and X-Chat work
great, but Mozilla refuses for play for some reason... It fires up OK, but
will not use the ISDN connection even though the other apps do... Only thing
I can think is different versions of Mozilla on the two machines - my
desktop is 1.2.1 w/XFT and my laptop is vanilla RH Mozilla. When I fire up
Moz via SSH, I get the local version rather than the remote one...

Cheers,
--
Schwuk