need GUI connect-to-host client

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, george young wrote:

> [Xwin 6.8.1.0-1, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows or cygwin hacker]
> 
> I'm hoping to replace Hummingbird Exceed on our ~50 PC's with cygwin-xfree,
> but I need a simple GUI client for our linux-naive users.  Just a little
> GUI client that the user double-clicks and asks for host, username, and
> password and fires up an xterm or other X process on a remote machine
> with rexec or ssh.  I would like to come up with something that does not
> require extra languages or libraries beyond what the PC's have by default,
> or at worst, things that can be loaded from the cygwin installer along with
> xfree.  I may finally be forced to learn Java...

Maybe this is of interest: http://xlauncher.sourceforge.net/

About Frontends to Cygwin/X:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00002.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-06/msg00063.html

bye
	ago
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