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X Windows on Windows XP Client
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| Mike W 2004-11-19, 5:45 pm |
| I recently installed FC3 on a workstation to begin learning Liunx. I
want to be able to connect to an X Windows session from my WinXP
client. I have been reading about using PuTTY, VNC, and/or X-Win32 to
connect and run X applications. I have been able to successfully
connect to a command line using PuTTY and X-Win32 to run specific
applications. But I am trying to run the entire X Windows desktop
enviornment from my XP workstation. When I connect using any of the
forementioned tools and issue the 'startx' command I get the same
error:
[root@fedora ~]# startx
X Window System Version 6.8.1
Release Date: 17 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-23.ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux fedora.efstitle.com 2.6.9-1.678_FC3 #1
Mon Nov 15 18:28:07 EST 2004 i686
Build Date: 16 November 2004
Build Host: bugs.build.redhat.com
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-1.678_FC3
(bhcompile@porky.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red
Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Mon Nov 15 18:28:07 EST 2004
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Nov 19 09:06:58 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) R128(0): No DFP detected
Agent pid 3740
SESSION_MANAGER=local/fedora.efstitle.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3721
AUDIT: Fri Nov 19 09:07:01 2004: 3697 X: client 6 rejected from local
host
looking for type: got text/plain
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90:
GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainloop is deprecated, use gtk.main
instead
self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning)
ate: 16 November 2004
Build Host: bugs.build.redhat.com
I have come to learn that 'No DFP detected' means Digital Flat Panel,
but I do not know what this has to do with running X Windows over an
SSH connection. The monitor connected to my XP workstation is a flat
panel.
Ultimately my questions are:
Is this problem specific to FC3?
Is it possible to control an X Windows desktop from an XP workstation?
Should this be possible naitively by using VNC?
Any advice or suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks is advance,
Mike
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| Stef SM 2004-11-20, 7:45 am |
| > I recently installed FC3 on a workstation to begin learning Liunx. I
> want to be able to connect to an X Windows session from my WinXP
> client. I have been reading about using PuTTY, VNC, and/or X-Win32 to
> connect and run X applications. I have been able to successfully
> connect to a command line using PuTTY and X-Win32 to run specific
> applications. But I am trying to run the entire X Windows desktop
> enviornment from my XP workstation. When I connect using any of the
> forementioned tools and issue the 'startx' command I get the same
> error:
>
> [root@fedora ~]# startx
Hello,
Try some like that :
- First run X-Win32 on your WinXp client ;
- Then run these commands on your Linux box (using putty for example) :
$ export DISPLAY=10.0.0.201:0.0
$ xhost + 10.0.0.201
$ /usr/bin/startkde &
- replace 10.0.0.201 with the @ip of your WinXP client ;
- replace kde by your graphical environment.
I think that you can run these commands automatically when you launch a
session with XWin32, with writing a script on Linux that is executed at
the startup of XWin32.
--
Stef
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| John Thompson 2004-11-20, 5:45 pm |
| On 2004-11-19, Mike W <eysce1@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed FC3 on a workstation to begin learning Liunx. I
> want to be able to connect to an X Windows session from my WinXP
> client. I have been reading about using PuTTY, VNC, and/or X-Win32 to
> connect and run X applications. I have been able to successfully
> connect to a command line using PuTTY and X-Win32 to run specific
> applications. But I am trying to run the entire X Windows desktop
> enviornment from my XP workstation. When I connect using any of the
> forementioned tools and issue the 'startx' command I get the same
> error:
I use cygwin on Win2k for this. Just open a cygwin shell and type "X
-query linux.machine.name -once" and it fires up X and displays the linux
machine's gdm login widget. From then on, it's just like sitting in front
of the linux machine using my linux desktop.
--
-John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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