On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Dean Byerley wrote: > Hi, > > Okay this may be a daft question but is there any version of Xfree (which is > free) which allows its to run under windows (i.e. like the commercials > offerings Hummingbird-Exceed etc.) and have a windows compatible Wm ? In the > "What is Xfree86" section is states that its goal is to support ever major > operating system and yet I cannot find a Windows version.
Hi Dean, Although you ask for a specific solution I wonder have you considered all the alternatives. It might be that you have a UNIX box somewhere on the network that runs a spiffy app that you want to display on your Windows-PC as a client. If so then the following programs which are written for Windows will do the trick: X-Win32 http://www.starnet.com/ (this is a cheap X-client that has a fully functional free trial version which does a timeout (I guess it's crippleware!)) Exceed http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html (this is much more expensive, but more featureful, it also has a trial version) Omni-X http://www.xlink.com/nfs_products/Omni-X_Server/Omni-X_Server.htm (midway between X-Win32 and Exceed) Cygwin/XFree86 http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/ (this installs a version of XF86 and GNU development tools that would allow you to run locally on the Windows-PC an XF86 server and the X-application. Cygwin is a port of GNU utilities to Windows). There are also these two options: 1. VMWare http://www.vmware.com (this allows you to host a UNIX "virtual machine" on Win-whatever. It also allows the converse: host Win-whatever on UNIX but this latter doesn't sound like what you need. It's pricey, but there's a 30 day trial version to check out.) 2. Win4Lin http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin30/ (this allows windows programs to be run on a Linux worktation. So you could install a full GNU/Linux OS, and use its XF86 server to run your X-application and use Win4Lin to access your Office suite, or whatever reason you have for continuing to use Windows) I guess if you're looking for no-cost free then Cygwin is going to be the best, but be aware that if you're trying to connect to Solaris boxes then there can be some irritating issues at the higher color-depths. I used X-Win32 for a long while in its free version before I could get our lab to stump up for a site license. It's a good program and the timeout was for a reasonable period like 3-hours or so. All you had to do was to kill the connection and restart it as soon as your watch-alarm went off!. -Oisin _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
