From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: server X 11 Sep 1998 18:59:12 -0700 Message-ID: <01BDDD75.00B69600.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" , "'Alexander Stockdale'" Alexander Stockdale wrote: > I think we really need to port XFree86 to the cygwin environment. I've started looking into this, but it looks like it may be a big job (just look at the size of the diff file for the OS/2 port). > Porting _Xfree86_ to win32 is a bad idea, because Xfree86 requires direct video hardware access. The best candidate to port is sample X server provided with X11 distribution - just create directory xc/programs/Xserver/hw/Win32 and fill it with some code :-) Another interesting possibility is to modify libX11 to display X requests with Windows GDI calls if environment variable DISPLAY is not set or set to "localhost". This case bundled Xnest server will act as X server (Xnest compiles with cygwin and runs), and no X server will be required for local X clients. Some related work already done in ntxlib package. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".