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- From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: Linux as X terminal
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.214204.1353@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Sender: hlu@poly2 (H.J. Lu)
- Organization: Washington State University
- References: <1992Sep11.132443.189@news.uwyo.edu> <1992Sep12.205759.28856@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 21:42:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.205759.28856@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, hohndel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Dirk Hohndel) writes:
- |> bills@news.uwyo.edu wrote:
- |> :
- |> : Is it possible to use Linux as an X server. IE can
- |> : I run an application on a remote DEC station and control
- |> : it from my Linux machine. Can this be done using SLIP
- |> : and a fast modem or do I have to use TCP/IP. Also does
- |> : the SLS distribution have TCP/IP built in?
- |> : Thanks,
- |> : Bills@outlaw.uwyo.edu
- |>
- |> Ten minutes ago I had success !!
- |> I now have a working XTerminal :-)
- |>
- |> How ?
- |>
- |> 1. Linux 0.97pl4 with TCP/IP 0.8.0
- |> 2. X20 (prerelease; X1.1 should do, but I haven't tested)
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- With TCP/IP enabled? Very impressed. I don't think X1.1 has TCP/IP support.
- Even in my testing version of X2.0, there is no TCP/IP at all.
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- |> 3. X11d from nic.funet.fi /pub/OS/Linux/xtra/net (or something like that)
- |> 4. (in a virt con) xinit xterm
- |> 5. (in the xterm) telnet host
- |> 6. (on the remote host) export DISPLAY=linuxbox:0
- |>
- |> Now you can start a window manager, xterms, ... on the remote host and have a
- |> working XTerminal.
- |>
- |> Great job, folks.
- |>
- |> I think the FAQ of comp.windows.x has to be changed in regard to having a
- |> FREE XTerminal Software for PCs... :-)
- |>
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- Wait for NFS. Hope somebody has started to work on it.
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- H.J.
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