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Re: Remote X windows



Hi, Ira Abramov!

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 08:25:29PM +0200, you wrote the following:

> > I've looked a bit for a solution which will:
> > 
> > 1. Run an X enviroment on NT
> 
> Exceed or Xwin-32

I've had fabulous experience with X-Win32, so if you can afford the
price ($200 for a station), it's a great solution.

> > 3. Can connect over modem/ISDN line.
> 
> any such solution will be very slow. you have been warned.

There's software that helps a little bit here, called dxpc --
"differential X protocol compressor". It acts as an X protocol proxy
and compresses all the traffic. Pretty nifty.

> > Anyone here with experiment with one of those programs? are they easy to
> > configure? other alternatives?
> 
> XFree on a Linux box? :-)

Actually, for dedicated use (i.e. if you don't need to run Windows
applications at the same time), this is a great solution, and I
implemented it once in one school. There's even a special distribution
for this purpose, called Xenu or Xdenu or something like that, search
for it. It runs on UMSDOS, so you'll have a 15 MB or so C:\Linux
directory (not a big deal), and then you can create an icon on the
desktop for the loadlin batch file, and have xdenu automatically
launch "X -remote server.com" -- very friendly and works very well.


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