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[ILUG] Small Distro to use as an X server

[ILUG] Small Distro to use as an X server

Ivan Griffin ivan at skynet.ie
Thu Oct 7 17:19:06 IST 2010



On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Brian O'Mahony wrote:

> Ivan
>
> It works to RHEL, SUSE, and Solaris x86. It doesn't work to windows. The GUI pops up but no menu is usable. Clicking does nothing.
>
> We opened a PMR with IBM and after three weeks they came back and said it was unsupported. This is with the 7.1.1 version. I know for a fact 7.0.1 works fine as I have it running on other AIX boxes.
>
> IBM just didn't want to know.
>
> Ive just downloaded and put tinycore in a VM. However it doesn't have xhost, only xauth. Which would require them to generate cookies every time (and tbh these users would probably not know how to do it).
>
> Ill see if there are any packages for it that would make it easier.
>
> B
>

Weird.  I've heard of keyboard problems with AIX and XMing previously, 
but never of mouse related issues.

Have you tried Cygwin-X? http://x.cygwin.com/

Cheers,
Ivan





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