Re: Continuous running (was Re: gnuclient *feature* -- crash when frames lose X connection)
Samuel Mikes <smikes(a)cubane.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, -unmapped only has meaning on X and gtk devices,
and
I'm the guy with tty-only. I'll try a couple of things:
maybe I can implement initially-unmapped for tty devices without
too much pain, or else maybe I can create a null-device class.
According to what Bill says, installing X so I can use Xvfb sounds
like it should work.
And while I'm talking blue-sky, what I *really* want is to start
an XEmacs server on my unix box and then connect to it with gnuclient
from the windows box, with the gnuclient having a normal
XEmacs-on-msw interface. The server XEmacs would presumably have to
be compiled to know about the foreign widget toolkit, fonts, colors,
etc...
Well, this is horribly evil, but, in the meantime, you could do
what I'm doing: keep a vncserver running in the background. You can
have XEmacs running in X under VNC, and use gnuclient to connect to it
from ttys. Another advantage is that you can connect to it from
Windows, for a really ugly (but amazingly fast) way of accessing X11
from Windows (although the cygwin XFree86 server is probably a better
approach for this).
[ And what I'm doing is doubly-evil, in that I've got the box configured
to start the vncserver session (with my uid) at boot time. I'm
actually using it as a remote console. ;-) It's behind a firewall at
home, and accessed only from systems at home, and so I'm not too
concerned about security (vnc sends everything in the clear). ]
VNC is *really* nice.
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Darryl Okahata
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