Another option would be to run putty and piggyback VNC on it. I get to my home laptop from work that way all the time. VNC uses X11, and you don't need to install the X server on your remote machine. David Phillips said: > Spencer Butler writes: >> Will putty forward X when there is no X locally? My understanding is >> that it will not. I believe you need to have the cygwin X installed >> locally to forward X applications using your preferred terminal. > > You would have to have an X server running locally to display > applications. PuTTY supports this. Applications are run on the remote > machine and display on the local X server. > > My suggestion was to skip X entirely and use PuTTY instead of an > inferior xterm. > > -- > David Phillips <david at acz.org> > http://david.acz.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list