On 2018-04-29 21:52, Paul Sheer wrote: > I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: > > C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp > > (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) > > The X Server renders perfectly well and my favorite applications do > start up and run. > > However performance is extremely slow -- it is slightly too slow to be usable. > > For instance I tried some graphical text editors, and a [PageDown] > press take 0.25 seconds to render: Whereas on a commercial X Server > running side-by-side on the same Windows desktop renders in <0.03 > seconds. > > I am a bit confused if this is intended this way: i.e. is this just a > demonstration of the capabilities of CygWin, or is it actually being > used by anyone? I ask because there are no reports of anyone finding > the X Server slow, yet the software has been many years in release.
Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
