On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 16:52, James B. Byrne wrote:
Thank you all for the advice. I had cygwin installed many years ago but that machine has gone the way of all silicon. While not terribly involved it seems overkill for the present need, which is just to run a single x-windowed application on a very occassional basis.
I will look into the rest of the proposed solutions this weekend.
Depending on why you want remote access, some of the other choices might be better anyway. If you want to grab the running screen the x11vnc server with any vnc viewer will let you do that. Or you run a normal vnc server or use freeNX to start independent but long-running sessions that allow you to disconnect and reconnect from other locations as needed. VNC 'feels' slower even on a fast LAN connection, but is fairly usable over really slow links because the running program doesn't have to wait for the remote screen to draw.