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Re: getting the entire x remote server to run locally


On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:31:19AM +0000, PJ wrote:
> I have X/cygwin running and know about ssh tunneling, but that's not quite what
> I'm looking for. What I want to do is basically ssh to the remote machine and
> actually have a full X desktop from that machine running in cygwin, not just
> apps called from xterm. Is that possible? Basically, I want what I normally see
> when I type in startx on the remote machine to be what displays if I type startx
> after ssh'ing to it on the local machine.

What about something like `Xnest -query localhost`?

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