-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8klRxdjdlQoHP510RAtjEAJ9BfwUy4y0IHWvuEZXTjE5qvruFRgCff02y z1BMq+RmrXP5zYE+p/BX4vY= =UAu/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
