Monday, December 06, 2004
paint your own pottery
A paint your own pottery studio (aka "contemporary ceramics" or "ceramic cafe") has just opened in Newport, South Wales - looks like it could be good for Christmas presents for the family and great stuff for kids - check it out at 27 Charles Street or @ barefoot-ceramics.com
Friday, February 27, 2004
windows X server
Unix Through Windows [2/2]
The fun part
Okay, now that we’ve the concepts behind us, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty of installation. First you need to install the X Server on your Windows machine. Fire up the setup program for MI/X. Installation is easy, but the MI/X server is not without its problems. It repeatedly crashed while running big Unix apps, like WordPerfect and Netscape Navigator. However, it should suffice for our purpose.
Once installation is over, start MI/X. Next, try pinging the Unix machine to see whether it’s reachable over the network. If it is, telnet to the Unix machine by giving the telnet command. The Windows telnet applet should open up and present you with the login prompt. Once you have logged in, you should get the Unix shell prompt. You’re now almost ready to run your X applications. But before that, you need to tell the Unix system where to send the output of its X Clients.
To do this, you must set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to your Windows machine. The X Clients send their output to the X Server pointed to by the DISPLAY variable. From your telnet window, run the following commands:
For Bash/Bourne shell users
export DISPLAY=’:0.0’
For C Shell users
setenv DISPLAY ‘:0.0’
To find out which shell you are using, type "set | grep –i shell"
Once you have set your DISPLAY variable, fire up Xterm by giving the xterm& command at the shell prompt. You’ll see the Xterm window open on your Windows’ desktop. Well, that’s it. Fire up GIMP or any of your other favorite Unix apps through Xterm and make a few heads turn as you work on Unix from your Windows’ desktop.
[from http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/handson/299060102.asp ]
The fun part
Okay, now that we’ve the concepts behind us, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty of installation. First you need to install the X Server on your Windows machine. Fire up the setup program for MI/X. Installation is easy, but the MI/X server is not without its problems. It repeatedly crashed while running big Unix apps, like WordPerfect and Netscape Navigator. However, it should suffice for our purpose.
Once installation is over, start MI/X. Next, try pinging the Unix machine to see whether it’s reachable over the network. If it is, telnet to the Unix machine by giving the telnet
To do this, you must set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to your Windows machine. The X Clients send their output to the X Server pointed to by the DISPLAY variable. From your telnet window, run the following commands:
For Bash/Bourne shell users
export DISPLAY=’
For C Shell users
setenv DISPLAY ‘
To find out which shell you are using, type "set | grep –i shell"
Once you have set your DISPLAY variable, fire up Xterm by giving the xterm& command at the shell prompt. You’ll see the Xterm window open on your Windows’ desktop. Well, that’s it. Fire up GIMP or any of your other favorite Unix apps through Xterm and make a few heads turn as you work on Unix from your Windows’ desktop.
[from http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/handson/299060102.asp ]
FP - l337!
