Re: Displaying remote Xclients without server window

[Stephan Wehner <stephanwehner at gmail dot com>]

Fantastic -  thanks a lot

Stephan

On 6/2/05, Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking about setting up an X server on a Windows machine without
> > the server window itself.
> >
> > I want an xterm running on the remote (e.g. Linux) machine to be
> > visible on my local machine as its own window, which can be moved
> > around, minimized, resized etc. on the Windows machine just like any
> > other Windows application window. Then, if I run e.g. ghostview in
> > that xterm, the new window appears on my Windows machine.
> 
> You must be thinking of multiwindow mode.  This is already the default in
> the latest versions of the xorg-x11 packages.  Just run "startx" or
> "startxwin.sh", or use the "-multiwindow" parameter when invoking XWin.
> 
> On the off chance you want to run your own window manager and still not
> see the root window, try the -rootless parameter instead.
> 
> There are also display forwarding issues (e.g., via ssh), but you'd have
> those even with the root window.
> 
> > In addition, these remotely running windows show up separately on my
> > Windows taskbar.
> 
> Yep, definitely multiwindow. :-)
> 
> > Plus, available remote applications appear in the Windows
> > Start Menu automagically, and when launched run on the remote machine,
> > but display on the Windows machine. (The user sees no difference,
> > except maybe for authentication)
> >
> > Is it already possible with existing (cygwin) code? Or other packages?
> 
> Heh.  That's something you'd have to do yourself.  You can create a
> Windows shortcut that starts the X server, and then starts an xterm on the
> remote machine with DISPLAY set appropriately.  FWIW, I found that it's
> usually better to run a local xterm that runs ssh instead of running a
> remote xterm over ssh (as you said, the user sees no difference).  In case
> you're interested, here's the command line for my shortcut (I don't check
> for a running X server -- I leave that as an exercise for the reader):
> 
> c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash --login -c "/usr/bin/xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0 -bg '#ffffff' -fn 10x20 -rw -cu -si -sk -sb -sl 5000 +cn -T 'Remote xterm' -n 'Remote xterm' -e /usr/bin/ssh -C -X -2 user@host.domain &"
> 
> HTH,
>         Igor
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