[Info-vax] XWindows Client

[Jerry Alan Braga]

that email account is a bogus account, can you post the file here, I believe 
that is is just a text file.

"Wilm Boerhout" <wboerhout.no at spam.gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4B55DEE6.9010001 at spam.gmail.com...
> 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
>>>> news:4b5016b2$0$14119$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl...
>>>>> 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
>