X servers for Windows

[jbk at mail2.gis.net (jbk)]

Its nice to know there are people out there who use cygwin. I don't use it much except as a file manager(w/ntemacs) when I'm on the windows box. I have adapted linux for my server so I have the real thing to play on. My version(b20.1)is a little out of date.
til next
    jbk

Scott Prive wrote:

> Yep... I couldn't live without the Cygwin tools :-)
>
> There are some things you can't do with the Cygwin XFree port, like spawn X applications, each in their "own" windows on your Windows desktop. This makes X applications look almost as if they were "native" to the host OS. You can do this in Hummingbird Exceed, etc. I can live without that, considering it's gift.
>
> You can also get KDE runing under Cygwin/XFree. That's not a native KDE port of course. (Personally I like GNOME better, but no one's ported GNOME onto Cygwin/XFree)
>
> -Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek D. Martin [mailto:ddm at pizzashack.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:08 PM
> To: BLU Users' Group
> Subject: X servers for Windows
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> Hey all,
>
> About once every oh, say, 6 months, someone asks if anyone knows of
> any good, free X servers for Windows.  IIRC, the answer has always
> been basically that no, there aren't any.  Well, there is one. It's
> called XFree86.  No, I'm not making it up.
>
> If you install Cygwin, which is basically a Unix compatibility layer
> for Windows plus a bunch of GNU tools, you can also install XFree86 on
> top of it.  It only seems to come with TWM as the window manager, but
> I imagine you could compile FVWM for it too...
>
> I've tried it out and it's pretty nice, despite TWM. :) There are a
> few minor annoyances with it, mostly to do with the fact that I have
> not configured my environment in Cygwin yet.  The one biggest problem
> so far seems to be that, for some reason (which I haven't investigated
> yet), when you start an Xterm it sets $TERM to vt102, and many of
> xterm's features do not work with that setting.  You can, however,
> manually change the TERM variable to xterm, and things work properly.
>
> I suspect that this also has something to do with the fact that I
> haven't set up my environment yet.
>
> You can get both Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 at
>
>   http://www.cygwin.com/
>
> Hope someone finds this useful.
>
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