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Calling all the HEAVY hiters. VoidMan, creedon and others for support

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rtgwbmsr:
Yeah, you could boot to Knoppix and use SSH.

The prob. I ran into with this was that you can only have (by default, anyway) 1 X server client running at once. Which means that if X server is running on the server, everything from the connecting computer has to be done in text.

If you can fix that, you have a good option (other than what void said)

Bazoukas:
Hmmmmm. I have an idea.  

  Lets say I decide to go text only, compiling and all that will be a breeze.
  Can I use Latex (its programming language for thos who dont know, and its easy) to do my presentation while in text mode, using, textural scematics with Latex?

 in other words can Latex display schematics in text? I dont care if the scematics are not full of ghey colors and eyecandy.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by The_Muffin_Man/B0b:
The prob. I ran into with this was that you can only have (by default, anyway) 1 X server client running at once. Which means that if X server is running on the server, everything from the connecting computer has to be done in text.

--- End quote ---


Huh? Having an Xserver running on the server has nothing to do with running X apps and having them displayed on the local (Knoppix) X server. If you ssh into the server and if you have your ssh server configured to automatically forward X11 then you should be able to run all the X apps you want on the client.

There are two ways you can do this boot up Knoppix and the local Xserver (the default bootup), then ssh into your home server and run any X app you want and it should display on the local X server. As long as your DISPLAY env variable is properly set you should be able to display all the apps you want. In fact Xwindows doesn't even have to be running on the server you are running the apps from.

The second option is to turn on XDMCP on your server (this is done in the gdm configuration). Then on your Knoppix side you would get out of X and start X with this command:

X -query xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Which should connect to gdm on the remote machine giving you a remote graphical login.

In fact the Knoppix way would be the best/coolest if you can get it to work. I'll boot up my Knoppix CD in vmware now and try it out.

flap:
I don't know what textural schematics are, but if you can represent them using Latex you won't actually be able to 'display' the compiled ps/pdf document if you're using a text-only method of connecting to the server; you'd only be able to demonstrate compiling the source file.

Bazoukas:
scrap tha man. I wanted to say simple schematics.

 Sometimes I think in Greek and talk in English.


In other words can I use Latex while in text mode and just have simple basic schematics?

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