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 attached a PNG for those who are interested. It shows a running Cygwin/XFree86 session where I'm ssh'd (openssh 3.1-p1 from Cygwin) into my Linux laptop, reflecting my Netscape communicator and an xterm back to the windows box. And I brought up Paint so you can see it really is windows... ;-) You can get both Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 at http://www.cygwin.com/ Hope someone finds this useful. -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org
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