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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.wtn.mci.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q) Date: 11 Oct 1996 08:48:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <53l1kh$4ia@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Tom Misiak <misiak@foto.infi.net> wrote: > I have been able to successfully set up my > user PPP under FreeBSD 2.1 to connect to my HP workstation > at work. I can telnet from my machine to my workstation > using its IP and everything in that (telnet) xterm works > great and relatively fast. I then execute xhost+ on my > end and setenv DISPLAY IP:0.0 on my workstation's end. > I then attempted to start a simple xapp to see what > happens. I executed xcalc& in the telnet term. After > about 45 secs I got the outline of xcalc but the app > never became usable (had the frame but nothing in it...) Perhaps it's the non-rectangular buttons, i'm not sure. I even ran Emacs across a plain 14400 link, and never ran into any serious problems apart from not exactly feeling like on an Ethernet. ;) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)