From: maillist AT oot DOT co DOT uk (Mailing list) Subject: Re: server X 11 Sep 1998 23:14:36 -0700 Message-ID: <35F8DC1A390.82AEMAILLIST.cygnus.gnu-win32@granite> References: <19980910001327 DOT 30985 DOT qmail AT findmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At [10 Sep 1998 00:13:27 -0000] "Alexander Stockdale" wrote: > > > I'm asking myself a question. Don't we need to port the X server part under > > > gnu win ? In fact, it's the only part we have to buy to make the Xclient > > > stuff works. Is it an idea or do you consider that the free stuff is > > > sufficient ? > > > > Quite a variety of native Win32 ports of X servers should work fine, > > be it a free or commercial one. You may want to try the free ones > > first and see how they work for you... > > > > The two free x-servers for Win32 that I'm aware of are the M/IX server (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and the StarNet server. The M/IX server is fair (does not support Athena widgets properly). The StarNet server is quite good, but the downloadable version will only run for 2 hours at a time. There is also a port of the X-windows VNC server, which acts as an X-Server with a virtual frame buffer. Then you can use the Win32 VNC viewer to view it. See http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ (VNC homepage) or http://www.do.ru/users/valtul/ (Link to GNU-WIN32 ported apps) The code is based on XFree86 3.3 (AFAICR). > > 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). I'd suggest starting with the VNC server, as it should be (he says without really knowing) easy to convert the virtual frame buffer into backing store for a window. -- Adrian St.John (adrian AT realobj DOT co DOT uk / adrian AT oot DOT co DOT uk) Real Objects Ltd. http://www.realobj.demon.co.uk - 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".