Re: XWindows client on windows (fwd)

[Nils Lohner <lohner at hew dot ecf dot teradyne dot com>]

Suahib,
  yes, this answers the question, thanks.  Is this information on a web page 
somewhere where I can point people for a status on the servers in the 
future?  I'd like to be able to use the 'if you invest X man-hours in this 
its still cheaper than a few hundred licenses' argument if possible, and a 
web page with this info (as well as a 'How to contribute' section) would 
help my argument.

I'll try to contribute to the debug a little after April 17th, so it would 
be nice to be able to go to a page that tells me what to download/install 
and where to hunt for bugs, for example.  Which of the solutions below would 
be the 'most likely to be the real solution'?  I can try to help with that 
one.  Currently it sounds like XGGI or XGDI/VNC, right?

Thanks, Nils.
ps. the Mozilla project (mozilla.org) has excellent pages along these lines 
for anyone who wants to contribute.


In message <POEJIIKDIPBMBPOANKOAIENLCBAA.ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>, "Suhaib 
M.
 Siddiqi" writes:
>We still lack a stable X-sever.  There are 5 X server at Cygwin-xfree site.
>One is XGGI, but Steve during last few days reported problems with it
>which John could reproduce and is fixing it.
>
>Second is XGDI/VNC, which is the most stable one so far, but it runs only
>in Window'ed mode... something like MI/X does.
>
>Third is XWin, DirectX based.  It is the buggiest one in our pool.  I
>cannot open any X client using it.  It crashes with DirectX surface
>lock error message.
>
>Fourth and Fith are based upon Peter Busch video drivers NTUX.  These
>lack Window manager and are at Beta version.
>
>In summary nothing is so stable at the moment which could be
>classified as an equivalent to Exceed.
>
>Writing an X server is a major projects, and we do not have
>enough contributors.  Peter Busch is working on stabilizing
>the X servers.  Therefore hopefully in the near future we 
>could be able to declare one of the above mentioned X server
>as an stable release.
>
>I hope this answer your questions.
>
>Suhaib
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
>> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Nils
>> Lohner
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:28 AM
>> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
>> Subject: XWindows client on windows (fwd)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I sent this message to Suhaib earlier, but I think its a question 
>> others may 
>> be asking as well, so I'll post it here.  Basically: what are 
>> currently the 
>> alternatives to a product like exceed?  A real X server, vnc, 
>> anything else 
>> come to mind?
>> 
>> Thanks, Nils.
>> 
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>> 
>> Hello Suhaib,
>>   I've seen quite a bit of activity on the list recently, and 
>> things seem to 
>> be looking good!  A quick question though: at present, how easy (and 
>> reliable) is an installation of something that will function to allow X 
>> Clients (as exceed and others do)?  Here at work people are 
>> thinking about 
>> buying a lot of exceed licenses, but if there's a free alternative, 
>> obviously that would be better, but it has to be a 'solution' as 
>> they like 
>> to call it and not a hack.
>> 
>> Please let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks, Nils.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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