OpenGL under XFree; Server config app

[Phil Betts]

Berndt, Jon S wrote on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:36 PM::

> Two questions:
> 
> 1) I assume that the plain vanilla XFree server distributed via a
> Cygwin install does not natively support OpenGL. Regardless, how
> would I enable support for OpenGL, if possible, and/or where can I
> find out more about OpenGL support under CygWin/XFree. I'd like to
> run an OpenGL application on a remote machine and have the display on
> my local PC running XFree.     

Try installing the xorg-x11-xwin-gl server.  It's marked as
***EXPERIMENTAL***, but I've been running it without problem for months.
I've not done too much extreme GL stuff, but what I've  tried all seems
to work.  You'll also need the opengl package for your GL clients.

If you have problems with the native (i.e. accelerated) GL server, you 
can use the Mesa package with the non-GL XWin as a fallback.

> 
> 2) Is there a stable XFree server configuration application that
> controls the various X server characteristics? 
> 

Emacs and vi (yes I use both - we're not all editor bigots) do just
fine for me ;)

I'm not sure what characteristics you had in mind.  The server startup
parameters are documented in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat (which may be
moved to /bin soon).  This is the file that you need to edit.

Once X is running, xset, xmodmap etc. are your friends.  You can add 
these to the end of startxwin.bat.

I assume what you were really after was a GUI X launcher application.
There was talk of such a beast quite a while back, but I think it was
shelved because it would need to be a native Windows application and
would therefore not sit well within cygwin.  I don't know if any
further work has been done in this direction.

Phil
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