[ILUG] X Windows Query

[Dave McMullin]

On 4/16/08, Michael Watterson <watty at eircom.net> wrote:
...
>  Windows X support does not seem to have improved since 1999 when I first
> looked at it. The "free" and/or "open Source" X Servers tend to be poor and
> implement a separate desktop. The only "seamless" ones seem to be quite
> expensive commercial.
>

The Cygwin X server's default behaviour is seamless, with no separate
desktop needed. I've been happily using this under Windows XP for some
time, to remotely run X apps on a Linux box.

Dave


>  Because Windows is expect to provide a lot of GUI services to a Program,
> and generic X application is really a graphics terminal window assuming
> nothing about the desktop, it is in theory much easier to have seamless X
> applications (local on Cygwin or MS Services for UNIX, or on a remote
> server) on Program Manager or Explorer than have Windows Applications run at
> all seamlessly in Linux (via Wine) or Windows with Program Manager /
> Explorer replaced by an X-Window Manager and X -Server. (yes it *IS*
> possible to switch on  the  Posix   subsystem, install  MS  UNIX Services
> For  Windows and  make  Shell= favorite X-Manager instead of Explorer. You
> need a 3rd party X-Server. MS UNIX serivices doesn't have one and Cygwin
> really needs 3rd party too. If you do this, you may find that only OS2
> console programs work properly! Yep they STILL have OS2 native console
> support in NT).
>
>  VNC...
>
>
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>  Mike
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