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Re: What do people use Xfree86 for?
- From: j-ttompkins at hotmail dot com
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:10:10 -0800
- Subject: Re: What do people use Xfree86 for?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
BULLSHIT!!!!
NOT A GOOD EXPLAINATION!!!!
USE FOR REMTELY CONNECTING TO A UNIX BOX N USE REMOTE APPLICATIONS.....
YA CAN DOWNLOAD FREE XSERVER FROM
http://www.thecyborg.com/howto/xserver.html
>Fred,
>I actually use Cygwin/XFree86 to run xfig on my laptop while I am doing
>my math and computer science homework at the library. That is the most
>useful local app that I use. Other than that I tend to open XDMCP
>sessions to my linux boxen so that I can login and use KDE. That's
>about it.
>Harold
>fred wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just ran Xfree86. Very, very nice.
> Just like sitting on the sun boxes
> at school. All the twm setup files
> and Xresources work the same. It was
> so alike (and tons faster) that I got
> carried away and starting to invoke
> apps like I do from school. That's
> where the similarity ended. All the
> apps fired up outside of Xwindows.
> That's OK, my relationship with windows
> is one of like-hate. It has some pretty
> handy features, but I tear my head off
> about some things.
>
> But, given that cygwin's X runs within
> Windows, and any apps you invoke fire
> up in MS windows (that's the way it
> should be because the apps were written
> to use the MS windows features), what
> do people actually use X for? I've
> found that despite the mighty coolness,
> all I do is open up an xterm and start
> an ssh tunnel to school, with port
> forwarding. Then I do everything else
> from MS windows. With the virtual
> scrolling of the touchpad, and the
> rather effortless cut-and-paste, I
> don't mind it at all. But it sort of
> makes me wonder....why?
>
> Fred
>
> P.S. This is not a knock down of X
> on cygwin, I think it's really cool.
> It's astounding that it was even
> possible. I'm wondering if I'm not
> making as much use of it as I could.
>