Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/PCB desktop icons and remote access?

[Mike Jarabek <mjarabek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

harry eaton wrote:
> ...
> > To make this as painless as possible for the windows users, and to show
> > that Linux/gEDA/PCB are not toys I'm planing on setting up a server that
> > can run gEDA/PCB using TightVNC over the network.  Has anyone ever done
> > something like this before with (Tight)VNC?  I was able to demo to the
> >   
> boss
> > using his Internet Explorer under Windows to run PCB over the network
> >   
> using
> > the server built into TightVNC.
> >   
>
> I use tightVNC to my headless linux box for pcb. It works well, but not
> perfect.
>
> I also run pcb under cygwin on a windows box at work. With the new X server,
> the PCB window is just another window on the pc desktop.
We are doing similar things here with gschem running on Solaris, and being
displayed on a Winodows box running Cygwin-X.  All indications are that this
works fine.

Mike

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                              Mike Jarabek
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