Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative

[Thomas Chadwick]

Thanks.

I have a small "bag of tricks" like this.  One of these days I'll get around 
to documenting them.  If/when I do so I'll be sure to post a URL to the ML.

By the way, I discovered a caveat in the solution I posted at the root of 
this thread.  XWin starts up before xinit launches ssh, causing the root 
window to obscure the command-line so that you can't see it prompt for a 
password.  I think a reasonable fix would be to put the ssh command "inside" 
an xterm in the .xinitrc file as follows:

xterm -title "ssh on `hostname`" \
-e ssh -X remoteusername@remotehostname pathtoremotescript

>From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe 
>alternative
>Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:43:48 -0400
>
>Thomas,
>
>Yes, that is an excellent answer and it describes an elegant solution that 
>99% of people would not be able to come up with on their own.  I am 
>flagging it for inclusion into the User's Guide.  Of course, that doesn't 
>mean it will be in the User's Guide next week, or even next month, but it 
>will eventually get there.
>
>Harold

[snip]


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