[wplug] X-Win32 alternative

[Ben Beige]

what would happen if you defined X as window default "shell"?




At 10:45 AM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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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