[Wolves] Cygwin/X

[Aquarius]

David Goodwin spoo'd forth:
> 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?
> 
> You could take the easier option and get an x server for windows (e.g. 
> eXceed).

Is non-Free. Bad user, no biscuit :)
 
> 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)

Ditto :)

Aq.

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