OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011, Dennis Malen wrote:
> Interesting observation. I am a Mac devotee. I will ask our IT Department 
> to look into that. That having been said our Wyse Thin Clients have posed 
> minimal service problems and are extremely reliable. We have people who 
> have up to three physical screens connected. In addition, many of our 
> people need three filePro screens open at a time. I understand I would 
> also be able to do that with a PC but maintenance is too high.

The new iMacs will support three physical screens, although I
typically have > 25 xterms open on my Macbook Pro with a 24in
1920x1200 Hyundai monitor.  It has plenty of area to have related
screens visible side-by-side.

Running X11 applications on the Macs is trivial.  We always do
this using ssh with X11 forwarding because it's so much easier
than dealing with DISPLAY and the related security issues when
attempting to do it without X11.

Bill
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