mingw only xserver
Alexander Gottwald
alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Nov 9 13:25:00 GMT 2004
Hi,
I've managed to compile the latest XWin sources with mingw.
This creates a binary which does not depend and cygwin and is
therefore lacking some features but can be used without installing
cygwin.
Note: This is a preview. Don't expect to much from it and don't
expect support. If you've found another feature which is missing
then let me know.
download:
=========
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/goal/xfree/Xming.exe.bz2
Installation:
=============
wget http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/goal/xfree/Xming.exe.bz2
bzip2 -d Xming.exe.bz2
Xming -fp tcp/fontserver:7100 -ac -co rgb
(You'll need a font server running on unix)
(copy the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb from any X11 distribution)
Missing features:
=================
- Multiwindow mode [0]
- mwExtWM mode [0]
- Clipboard [0]
- local font support [1]
- XKB support [1]
- XDMCP support [2]
- Unix sockets [3]
- Many extension are disabled (GLX, BigFont, SHM ...) [4]
[0] These features will stay missing for a long time since this
requires threading and a working libX11
[1] The local file support is broken and I've not put much effort into
fixing it
[2] DNS resolving seems to be missing or is broken
[3] Windows does not have unix style sockets
[4] I'll add them step by step
Working features:
=================
- TCP connections
- fontserver support
- windows, nodecoration, rootless and fullscreen modes
bye
ago
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