From: jsturm@sigma6.com (Jeff Sturm) Subject: Re: server X 12 Sep 1998 05:45:26 -0700 Message-ID: <35F93C34.8B137220.cygnus.gnu-win32@sigma6.com> References: <19980910001327.30985.qmail@findmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alexander Stockdale Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com FYI: I have just been told by a representative of MicroImages that they are currently considering releasing their MI/X server under an open source license. If that happens, then MI/X could be a good starting point for development (if it just supported SHAPE it would work well for me). Alexander Stockdale wrote: > > > > I'm asking myself a question. Don't we need to port the X server part under > > > gnu win ? In fact, it's the only part we have to buy to make the Xclient > > > stuff works. Is it an idea or do you consider that the free stuff is > > > sufficient ? > > > > Quite a variety of native Win32 ports of X servers should work fine, > > be it a free or commercial one. You may want to try the free ones > > first and see how they work for you... > > > > The two free x-servers for Win32 that I'm aware of are the M/IX server (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and the StarNet server. The M/IX server is fair (does not support Athena widgets properly). The StarNet server is quite good, but the downloadable version will only run for 2 hours at a time. > > I think we really need to port XFree86 to the cygwin environment. I've started looking into this, but it looks like it may be a big job (just look at the size of the diff file for the OS/2 port). -- Jeff Sturm jsturm@sigma6.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".