Re: [coLinux-users] Gentoo

[danny s. <ori...@gm...>]

On 02/03/06, Holger Krull <hol...@gm...> wrote:
> Chong Xie schrieb:
> > How do you open the Gentoo GUI interface? is it possible? or is coLinux
> > all just command line interface? Thx!
>
> Install a window manager or kde or gnome. (I don't know what gentoo prefe=
rs)

Ah - thats the thing about Gentoo - it gives all of those kind of
choices to the user, it "prefers" none. However- I would probably
recommend fluxbox or something else lightweight over KDE and Gnome, as
you are running it without any form of Graphics Acceleration, and the
virtual network connections between windows and colinux will be
flooded by graphics that are too fancy. Maybe one day, native FB
support will appear in colinux, until then - keep the WM lightweight.

> Start a session manager like kdm or xdm. Make it accept remote connection=
s and xdmcp.
> Use a X11 server on windows (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming) and conne=
ct with xming -query colinux.ip.address

Or use cygwin. The great thing about cygwin is you get ESD (the
enlightened sound deamon) as well, so if you are sneaky, you can put
all of those in a batch file from a desktop shortcut (I also like all
the other stuff that allows you to run unix commands from windows). So
once a Display Manager (XDM/GDM/KDM) is started, you can as above use
the -query ipaddress command line at the end of it. There is
definately a lot of information in the wiki about this. I will mount
my windows part on my desktop later tonight, and pull out my batch
file that handles most of this for you.

Cheers,
Danny
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