[NTLUG:Discuss] Xwindows servers and clients...

Courtney Grimland cgrimland at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 21 13:10:37 CDT 2002


Not that I'm against /other people/ setting up dual-boot systems, I think it
would be much cleaner to set up cygwin (unless for some reason cygwin won't
work on XP - I have no idea) and use it as a native X server on your laptop.




>-----Original Message-----
>From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
>Of Tom Woody
>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:57 PM
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Xwindows servers and clients...
>
>
>
>At work I have a very nice linux workstation (dual Athlons, lots
>of ram, etc) - very nice.  I also have a laptop which isn't too
>shabby, but obviously lacks some of the features of a desktop
>(diskspace being the most prominent).  I would like to setup a
>small linux partition on my laptop (the rest is WinXP for games,
>and the like) so I can run Xwindows from my workstation, but still
>allow me to be mobile.  So when I am running Xwindows everything
>that I am doing is on my workstation.  I know this seems like
>pretty newbie questions - but I have been using Linux/Unix for
>quite a while - years - but primarily in shell not in X so any
>pointers are helpful.
>
>Woody
>
>If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
>find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
>		--Scott Adams
>
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