Re: Managing tasks through remote access
There's an adequate X server for windows that used to be free but is now
$25 shareware:
http://www.microimages.com/mix/
it will probably do what you need. I haven't played with the cygwin one.
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Morbo (morbo@freemail.hu) spake thusly:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two computers at home. On one I'm running Linux, and it is turned on
> > non-stop. On the other I'm running W$ndows (mainly for games). This one is
> > only running if I'm doing something on it.
> > Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some
> > switch, but they usually degrade image quality at high resolution (or cost a
> > fortune), so I found it's much more convenient to telnet/ssh into the linux
> > machine if I want to use it. I'm also want to try some free X servers for
> > Win32 (any suggestions?) so that I could actually log in through X.
>
> Have a look at cygwin. ISTR you can run an X server under it, and
> you might even be able to use openssh with X tunneling and all that.
>
> > Is it possible to log in through telnet and ideally also through X into the
> > Linux machine, start an ftp client or irc client etc. then close the
> > connection again with the started applications continueing to run?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Also if I could do that, could I then log in back again later and find the
> > applications I left there and interact with them as if I hadn't left? (I
> > guess this if this is possible at all, it will be more difficult with X.)
>
> Yes. Have a look at e.g. screen package.
>
> Dima
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