A free X server can be installed with the Cygwin project, which is aJust some hints to use cygwin (which works perfect here, I just finished a practical term homework over DSL from a Sun SOlaris server):
project to give Windows some of the software of Linux in a sort of
compatability layer. If all this is new to you, you may want to tinker
with XWin Pro or Xceed first and then later try to use Cygwin/XFree86.
Get the installer (setup.exe) and choose to install from the internet (you should have something faster than ISDN, else it will take an eternity to download). You want to select some additional packages, namely nearly everything from the "XFree" series (something like that). After installation, you will have a "cygwin" icon on your desktop that opens a shell. Type in
"X :0 -fullscreen -query ltsp-server-ip" and start wondering wether you really have winblows running in the background (Alt+Tab will make sure that you have, just in case you need to get out of X). Running X without the -fullscreen option works well too, is most times probably not what you want anyway. Automating the start of X (say, as a .bat file) is somehow tricky. In case you need to, ask again and I'll try to grab it out of my old harddrives, as I had to get that running one day.
One advantage that XWin32 offers is the multiwindow (or is it single? No matter the terms...) mode in which windows is the windowmanager for all that X requests. Be warned though that there are applications that won't run that way - in the regular fullscreen mode I never experienced problems. After some time of testing I decided I won't pay much money for this commercial product when there's something open like cygwin that works good enough for me, and I think it only lacks some small features most people can live without.
HTH
Anselm
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