I'm interested in getting client x windows software for ms windows. What's
the best out there? Is there any freebie stuff available? A search of
tucows.com seems to only have expensive/crippleware.
Many Thanks.
by J » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:52:45
Many Thanks.
by Rex Diete » Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:56:21
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by Wayne Thro » Sun, 23 Dec 2001 04:38:29
Why would you want X clients to run on windows?
Remember, that means that you are running an X application on windows,
but displaying somewhere else. In X, the process that manages the
keyboard, mouse, and display is the server, not the client.
If you really want to run some application on windows but display
somewhere else (as opposed to running an application somewhere else
and displaying on windows) your best bet is probably to look
into cygwin. It also has an X server, so it can do both.
And it's free (despite the .com in the url).
http://www.cygwin.com/
http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/
: It's not X, but it'll function much the same way: VNC
: The best VNC client I know if as at:
: http://www.tightvnc.org/
In VNC, remember that the process that talks to the display is the
client, and the server is what talks to the applications. On unix, the
Xvnc process serves both X and VNC clients, and doesn't talk to any
display hardware at all. On windows, the situation is blurred, and the
VNC server for windows (which allows remote access to windows apps) does
talk to the display and keyboard and such, though only indirectly.
If what you want to do is run X apps somewhere else, and display
them on your windows display, VNC will definitely be the easiest
to install and maintain. The only shortcoming is you'll have to
install the Xvnc server on some unix host; if you don't have access
and MUST run the X server directly on the windows, box, cygwin and Xfree86.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
http://www.tightvnc.org/
http://www.developvnc.org/
by Dan Merc » Sun, 23 Dec 2001 04:53:38
> Why would you want X clients to run on windows?
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