Sending X to Windows...

[adlep]

Hmm,
excuse a dum question, but cant this program be used to startup the OSX session in Windows?
Once again, that would be a nice perspective....?
I think not, I am not really sure if Darwin is an X-Window based shell...?
Lets not flame each other folks, the purpuose of this forus is to learn, and to ask various, sometimes redundant questions....

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
adminning? what kind of an admin uses X apps? (to admin)

There are some cases where you don't have much of a choice.
Firewall-1 is one such case, Legato Networker is another one.
Actually in Networker you can do everything in the CLI as well, but it gets very hard to get a good overview after a while without using the GUI.

 

[adlep]

excuse a dum question, but cant this program be used to startup the OSX session in Windows?

LMK please....?

 

[MGMorden]

You can't use this to start native OS X apps on windows because they're not X11 based (they have a seperate method for managing windows just like microsoft does). The newest version of OS X does include an X11 server simliar to this though since a lot of open source unix apps that can be compiled on OSX required an X11 server to display (same way Unix apps require X11 to work in Windows if you use Cygwin). Those Unix apps can be pulled up on Windows from OS X, but you're not going to get access to anything that isn't available on the Linux platform.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
I use X-WIN32. Great (!) package, works with everything I ever tried it with, and they include an F-Secure SSH license so you can start an SSH term session direct from the X package.

It's not free, but it's well worth the price, IMHO.

FWIW

Scott

My school has a site license for X-win32 (so it is effectively free for students/faculty) and I really like it. We mostly use it to run stuff like maple, matlab, mathematica, cadence, etc on the unix server but from the dorms