[Info-vax] XWindows Client

[Wilm Boerhout]

Jerry Alan Braga mentioned  on 18-1-2010 14:35:
> Do you start a program or not, and if so what is the syntax?
>
> "Wilm Boerhout" <wboerhout.no at spam.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4b508f3a$0$14119$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl...
>> Jerry Alan Braga mentioned on 15-1-2010 15:05:
>>> thanks for xMing, I downloaded but do not understand how to get it to
>>> work
>>>
>>> "Wilm Boerhout" <wboerhout.no at spam.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Jerry Alan Braga mentioned on 14-1-2010 19:53:
>>>>> Currently I am using Excursion 7.3.189 to connect my Alpha Cluster
>>>>> boxes
>>>>> using the New Desktop model and everything works fine. We have added
>>>>> some CentOS linux boxes and I would like to connect to them as
>>>>> well. My
>>>>> question is, can I use Excursion to connect to these boxes and if so
>>>>> how, and if I cannot what client (free if around) can work with both
>>>>> openVMS 8.3 alpha and linux CentOS boxes.
>>>>
>>>> Google for xMing. It is a fine, modern X display server that also
>>>> works with VMS clients.
>>>>
>>>> /Wilm
>>>>
>>
>> Hmm, "intuitive" should be the word. After installation, you run the
>> executable image. The dialog helps you to configure your display
>> server (for Windows, use the "multiple windows" mode), and you can
>> save the config to an .xlaunch file, that you can use afterwards.
>>
>> For optimal results, use the remote font server option in Xming to
>> point to a VMS server with DECwindows Motif installed, and enable the
>> font server on that VMS system. This will ensure that all VMS client
>> apps use the familiar fonts.
>>
>> The Help for Xming should explain it all...
>>

After installing Xming, you can run Xming.exe. This is your display 
server, and now using default settings. It will signal its presence by 
an icon in your system tray. Right clicking the icon will give you 
access to, among others, the Help area.

If the default settings do not please you (and for VMS clients, they 
most likely won't), you can start the Xlaunch wizard. At completion of 
the wizard, you save the settings as an *.Xlaunch file. The Xlaunch 
extension is associated with Xming.exe, so clicking the saved file will 
start a display server with the saved settings.

I'll send you my VMS.xlaunch file by separate mail.

/Wilm