I've used XFree on windows 2000. It works, although I couldn't get
anything other than 8-bit color to work properly for some reason. It's a
large package, as you have to install a miniature linux(posix) subsystem
for it. It installs to /usr/X11R6 (\cygwin\usr\X11R6). I ended up
installing a complete cygwin environment as well (GCC, all the libraries),
so I ended up with a very large installation (500-700MB), although I think
the xfree package can be trimmed to about 100MB (even smaller without the
development stuff -- headers, static libraries).
I believe that the Win32 code is now merged into the standard XFree86
4.0.x code base now, although redhat continues supporting development of
cygwin and xfree for win32. Also, it only runs full-screen, and although
it uses directX for rendering, it doesn't use any acceleration yet, so the
window drags and other operations like that are very slow. That is being
remedied, I believe. There's also talk to writing code to give rootless X
support (multiple win32-decorated windows).
Another X server to check out is winaxe.
http://www.labf.com/labtam/winaxe/downloadxwin.html
It's commercial but is fast and nice. It also supports a nift feature
that lets you use a window-manager to decorage multiple, rootless X
windows that live on your windows desktop, or you can let win32 decorate
and manage them, or run in single-window, rooted mode, and use a window
manager and linux desktop system, like gnome
Michael
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, robert w hall wrote:
>
> I wrote:-
>
> since my last reply I've tracked down an open source cygwin project,
> (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree) which is intending to implement
> the full X11R6 spec on M$ Winders.
>
> This has a link to some recent work by developer Harold Hunt - a test
> X-server for win9x/ME.
>
> Anyone tried it, especially with win4lin??
>
> well _I_ have now ...
> - I'm using XWin32 as a remote X-server on a win95 box, to make this
> post, via Turnpike/win4lin on my main linux box.
> Bit slow, (and I have needed(?) to install quite a lot of the cygwin
> base-system as well), - but a welcome freebie well worth trying.
> Bob
>
> (I also here suggestions from MicroImages that they might at last get
> round to upgrading MI/X to X11R6)
>
>
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