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The installer for Xming and more product information are available on http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/.
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Running an X-Session via SSH on Linux
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| 1 | Start Xephyr. |
Parameters:
For more information refer to the man-pages of your Linux system. |
| 2 | Start an xterm inside Xephyr and create a SSH connection to HP-UX. |
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| 3 | Wait for the password prompt inside the xterm window and enter the password for the HP-UX user. | |
| 4 | An X-Session for the user will open in the Xephyr window. |
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Using XDMCP
Before using the X-server, XDMCP must be enabled on the guest system. XDMCP allows the HP-UX dtlogin screen to be displayed on remote X-Servers upon request of the X-Server.
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| 1 | Create a system-specific copy of the Xconfig file | # cp /usr/dt/config/Xconfig /etc/dt/config/Xconfig |
| 2 | Enable XDMCP. | Edit the file:
Locate the following line and insert a comment character, '#', at the beginning of the line. Save the file. |
| 3 | Restart the X-server. |
(If there is no dtlogin file in /etc/init.d, you first have to run |
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Font Considerations
Often, the system running the X-Server does not have all the necessary fonts to run HP-UX X-applications. In such cases, the graphical applications will not start. You can check if this is the case by monitoring the log file /usr/dt/Xerrors on the HP-UX guest system.
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- Configure and activate the fontserver on HP-UX and include it in the fontpath on the system running the X-Server. This is the preferred solution.
- Copy the missing fonts to the system running the X-Server and include them in the local fontpath.
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Once the fontserver responds to queries, it should be possible to add it to the fontpath of the X-Server (see below in the operating system specific sections).
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Copying Missing Fonts to a Linux X-Server
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| 1 | Create a directory to store the additional fonts. | For example:
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| 2 | Copy the missing fonts from the HP-UX guest to the new directory. | Example using the most likely missing fonts:
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| 3 | Create an updated fonts.dir file. | For each newly created fonts directory execute the following command:
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| 4 | Check if fontpath can be added to X-Server. | Assuming you run a graphical user session on Linux, use the following command to add a new font directory to your server (until next restart):
To display the fontpath of the currently used X-Server, use the following command:
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| 5 | Refresh the font cache. | Run the following command to refresh the font cache:
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| 6 | Verify whether your X-Server finds the fonts. | Assuming you run a graphical user session on Linux, use the following command to query the X-Server for known fonts (using HP-UX fontnames as an example):
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Connect to HP-UX from Linux
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| 1 | Start Xephyr. | Use local font directories:
Use fontserver:
Parameters:
For more information refer to the man-pages of your Linux system. |
| 2 | A CDE login window will appear in the Xephyr window. |
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Connect to HP-UX from Windows
This section shows how to use Xming to connect to a HP-UX guest system using XDMCP. 
For this setup no fontserver was configured and no fonts were copied.
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| 1 | Start XLaunch from the Xming section in the Start menu. Make sure that Xming is not already running before you start |
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| 5 | Finish the setup by continuing through the remainder of the sections (for this example all the defaults were accepted) and press Finish on the last configuration screen of XLaunch. | |
| 6 | The HP-UX graphical login screen is displayed and after logging in, you will see the graphical desktop. |
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