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Re: Some ideas to promote Xming features
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: win32-x11 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:01:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: Some ideas to promote Xming features
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507141422040.6926@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:30 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>
> > Here are some ideas to make Xming features more readily visible. This I
> > believe is in the spirit of Xlaunch, which didn't line up with how I use
> > Xming.
> >
> > Add a couple of short-cut menu options to the icon in the task bar
>
> You mean as menu item for the tray icon?
Yes.
> > - "xterm over SSH". This would simply ask for the
> > IP/hostname and then launch an SSH session w/X tunneling. This is
> > "earth shattering" since both Xservers & SSH X tunneling might be new
> > concepts to those who install Xming for the first time. It reduces
> > the things that a user has to remember/learn to IP/hostname, login and
> > password. I'm assuming he can figure out how to install and run
> > Xming :-)
>
> like
> InputHostUser("Remote Host and User", host, user);
> setenv("DISPLAY=localhost:display.screen");
> CreateProcess("plink -X user@host xterm);
Yes.
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Øyvind Harboe
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