Free X client for Win95?

[Charles Hines]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Piepmeier <gt2930b "at" prism.gatech.edu> writes:

Jeff> There is a free X-server available at www.microimages.com called MI/X.
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Jeff> Currently I use Hummingbird Exceed.

>>>>> "Yuxin" == Yuxin Ruan <yruan2 "at" vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu> writes:

Yuxin> I would suggest X-Win pro from www.labf.com. It costs $99 vs $300

What is all this talk of these other X servers when you can use the
Cygnus gnu-win32 tools and port of Xvnc (courtesy Valery Tulnikov) and
the WinDoze vncviewer to have a completely free GPL'ed X11R6.3 server
for MicroShaft WinDoze!

Granted, there are drawbacks: you have to work a little harder to
install it, you have to run Xvnc and vncviewer separately (although a
bash shell script could probably deal with that invisibly for you),
you have to grab and install a bunch of the X11 fonts or set up a font
server, and it's a bit overkill if you don't need all of the gnu-win32
user tools, but it is a completely free alternative that should work
really well.

I'm still in the midst of getting this exact setup going on a
co-worker's laptop (got interrupted and now they are out of town) so I
cannot as of yet give any first hand experiences with it, but I fully
expect it to work quite nicely when all is said and done.  Then I'll
probably try and extract just the bare necesities of the setup to
create a simple tar/zip file that could be used without doing a full
cygwin install for use on other people's laptops here.  We'll have to
see how that goes...

Chuck

ps - a somewhat related nice idea for anyone out there who is bored
enough would be to actually port the X11R6.3 server code to WinDoze
and a relatively simple way to do that would be to start with vnc,
removing the comminications protocol setup and replacing it with the
drawing code from the vncviewer to make a self contained server that
opens it's own window.  It would be a little faster than the separate
server/viewer combo and could later be optimized in it's drawing.  But
then the separate Xvnc/vncviewer setup does have the advantage of
being able to access it remotely too and that potential advantage
would be lost.

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Charles K. Hines <chuck_hines "at" vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Logic Synthesis Developer [BooleDozer (TM)]
Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis and Balintawak Escrima]

         "Go back to sleep, Chuck.  You're just havin' a nightmare
             -- of course, we ARE still in Hell." (Gary Larson)
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