On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:41:30PM -0700, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > While reading a page on X, I was wondering, should it be possible to > kick out Microsoft's window system and run Windows (??) 98 with X? It > says it is portable to various systems. Or maybe just the manager. So, > that I can make Win98/NT look like one of the X windows Wmanagers. > > Just wondering... I am not really wanting to do this, but it might > give me more knowledge about MSwin, X, WManagers, Desktops etc. >
Microimages makes an X server that runs on Windows and Macs (MI/X or something). They used to allow free use, but now they charge I think. It's part of their cross platform GIS/RS package TNTMips (which is very good, but $$$$). It basically opens a full screen window and runs something like MWM for the window manager -- so it's not real pretty. I don't know if there are other X servers, or free ones for that matter for windows. I don't think you could get most Window Managers to run under windows without special recompilation. And I have no idea if MI/X supports the full XDMCP type thingies. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
