From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14196 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to pull a gui gnus from linux to windows desktop Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:19:59 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k4jteqwg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291957080 13288 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 04:58:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:58:00 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 05:57:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQv3E-0006mt-It for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQv3D-0003tb-TW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:57:48 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SMea1tp+z8z/IjQMxR1rSQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Cancel-Lock: sha1:rMZHEoLChrl4JD2z3WPD+p1E6GM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85014 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:27:56 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14196 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Can anyone tell me, at least a general outline of what I'd need to do > to be able to connect to a gnus instance running on a linux server in > console mode, from a windows machine, and see gnus in a gue version of > emacs? > > I know how connect to an emacs daemon and there for a gnus session if > its running by ssh into the linux box, using cygwin or just putty. > > I'd like to figure out how to get the windows end to appear in gui > emacs. > > Anyone doing this or something similar? > > I've not done this recently but you should be able to accomplish this if you run an X Window System server (software) on your Windows machine. Cygwin used to have such a server available. SSH supports X (using the "-X" flag on Linux; I don't know about Windows). As I said, I've not done this recently as it's been years since I have had to use Windows. HTH, eric -- Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)