[wplug] X-Win32 alternative

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

Tim's right, you basically get "X in a box" - it's a big window that holds 
all your X windows.  You need to install xwinclip.exe to copy and paste 
between windows and X, but I've had no trouble with it whatsoever.

Finally, and this is minor but may affect some more than others- if you 
change your screen resolution and/or color depth, X won't pick up the 
changes until you close and restart it.  Minor, but occasionally annoying.

Bryon


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Tim Lesher wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:17:21PM -0700, Bob Schmertz wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Arnaud Loos wrote:
> > 
> > >From a previous post I saw a reader mention StarNet X-Win32. I went to
> > >their webpage and read a little about the product. I was wondering if
> > >anyone knew of a similar product that maybe didn't cost as much?
> > 
> > There's a port of XFree86 to Cygwin.  I don't have much experience with 
> > it, but I think it's a serviceable alternative.
> 
> 
> It works pretty well, but the killer for me was that the clipboard
> support was poor (I understand it's been improved in the past six
> months, though), and that it displayed all X windows in a separate
> desktop window (they didn't interact with 'native' windows.  I
> understand they were working on an XServer that would provide this,
> too, but it wasn't there at the time I had to commit to an X server
> for our project.
> 
> 

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