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Re: Using Xwin32
hetz@mail.dream.co.il writes:
> I just got Xwin-32 for Windows 95/NT and I would like to test it. My
> knowlede about xwin from remote really sucks, so I got few questions...
>
> * What do I need to setup in my Linux in order to use it? do I need XDM up
> and running? should I switch to runlevel 5?
There are two ways of working. You can either open a full-blown X
session with its own desktop & a window manager running on it, or you
can run individual applications on your Windows desktops and use
Windows itself as the window manager (that is, the remote windows from
Linux will appear as normal Windows windows).
In the first case, you want to run XDM, yes. In Red Hat that means
switching to runlevel 5. But before you do that, edit the file
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and comment the line that starts the local
server. If you leave it there XDM will start a local X server
displaying on a machine, and you want to use another X server from a
remote machine, so the local one is useless.
After that, you need to configure your XWin-32. I don't remember
exactly the menu selections, but you have to do two things: tell it to
use one window (that means that X gets its own desktop and a window
manager can run on it), and create a "session" or "connection" or
whatever it's called in XWin-32 that "queries" your Linux box using
XDMCP. There will be such a setting there, look for it.
In the second case, you can just telnet to your Linux machine, "export
DISPLAY=your_ip:0" (or "setenv DISPLAY your_ip:0" if you use tcsh) and
run your application. It should appear.
> * my small Linux machine is Cyrix 133 with 32 MB RAM. Will it overload the
> machine?
Naturally it depends what you run on it... xdm and all its business
take very little memory and CPU. If you run a heavy window manager it
will load the box, of course, but as always it depends on what you're
using.
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Alex Shnitman
alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il
http://alexsh.hectic.net