[ale] X applications in windows?

David Corbin dcorbin at imperitek.com
Wed Feb 27 14:50:28 EST 2002


Geoffrey wrote:

> I suspect you're out of luck then.  Understand that you want something 
> that's free that would require a whole bunch of info about windows 
> internals.  That doesn't mix.

I disagree.  You don't need to know ANYTHING about Windows internals to 
do this.  At least no as far as I can tell.  When the X apps says open a 
window, you open a window.  That simple.

>
> You've got Samba and vnc and such, because people worked really hard 
> to understand how windows does the things it does AND because things 
> like windows connectivity (samba) was seen to be a critical need by a 
> lot of folks willing to put in the effort.  Not too many folks see 
> running X apps on windows machines to be a critical need.
>
>
> David Corbin wrote:
>
>> What I'm really looking for in this area, is an (free) X server for 
>> windows that *doesn't* frame all the X application windows in a 
>> Windows window.  I want Windows to "be the windows manager".  I've 
>> little interest in the "desktop" for this application.  It doesn't 
>> sound like the cygwin version works this way....
>> michael d. ivey wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:35:37PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does Cygwin offer this functionality?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.  I just installed cygwin/Xfree86 on my Windows box, and am
>>> stunned.  I have a little X Windows icon that launches an X Server in
>>> a window, and I even have icewm running instead of twm.  Works like a
>>> charm.  There's a link off the main cygwin page.
>>>
>>
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