On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:06:42PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:00:18AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:23:05AM +0200, Aaron wrote: > > > I guess I must of missed something, > > > What can an xserver be used for on windoze?? > > > Why might someone want one? > > > > In order to run X clients on a remote machine and see them on your > > local Windows machine. > > Its also useful for running cygwin xapps locally. For example lyx can > run on windows but it requires cygwin and an X server (I actually did > it for a while trying to convert my girl friend, but it didn't work).
If you insist, not only cygwin xapps. I had a chance to test a commercial application that its windows port was X-based, and the distribution also installed and used an X server (I think eXceed). But this is quite rare, actually - e.g. in the case of LyX, you could theoretically make a native port quite easily, if you had QT for Windows (which costs quite a lot). Old apps, e.g. Motif based, are (were?) harder to port natively. I can also give one practical example, I did myself 1-2 years ago: I ran rdesktop on Windows, through mlview-dxpc (for compression), and to a Windows X server, in order to compete against Citrix over a slow link. Gave quite good results (close to Citrix and better than native RDP of Windows 2000), but was very hard to setup. rdesktop and mlview-dxpc were both compiled on cygwin, there was no Unix machine in the loop, only "Unix technology". But that's going way off topic ... -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
