RE: FW: XGDI/XVNC server on Win2K

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <siddiqis at ipass dot net>]

Hopefully Karra gets time and  sent in his DX based server
sometimes soon.  That may take care of these problems.

At the moment Xserver from cygwin-xfree project are alpha versions
and lacks a lot of features.  I am sure we will improve them in
near future.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew van der Stock [mailto:ajv@greebo.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:54 PM
> To: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: FW: XGDI/XVNC server on Win2K
>
>
> More data points:
>
> enlightenment fired up but not much happened
>  - opaque window moves simply do not work
> afterstep fired up but looked awful (color problems) and was
> glacially slow
> fvwm2 fired up, but none of the internals of the windows it drew worked
> twm, although slow to use, was the only workable window manager
>
> The server was running on Windows 2000 build 2183 (RC3) on a Toshiba Tecra
> 8000  PII/233 laptop, 96 MB of RAM, running in 16 bit mode at 1024 x 768.
> The clients were running on a near stock RH 6.1/x86 box.
>
> Andrew
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [mailto:siddiqis@ipass.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2000 12:45 PM
> > To: ajv@greebo.net
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: RE: FW: XGDI/XVNC server on Win2K
> >
> >
> >
> > I highly suspect Netscape will work.  Netscape requires multi-windowing
> > and the present binaries cannot do multi-windowing.
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew van der Stock [mailto:ajv@greebo.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 6:09 PM
> > > To: Suhaib Siddiqi; Corinna Vinschen
> > > Cc: Cygwin Xfree
> > > Subject: RE: FW: XGDI/XVNC server on Win2K
> > >
> > >
> > > Okay, I tried a smaller geometry than the screen size and it
> > > worked - until
> > > I tried running netscape on the display.
> > >
> > > It then came up with the following error in many many msgbox()s:
> > >
> > > 	Server error
> > >
> > > 		WaitForSomething(): select: errno=0
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib
> > > > Siddiqi
> > > > Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2000 8:05 AM
> > > > To: Corinna Vinschen
> > > > Cc: Cygwin Xfree
> > > > Subject: RE: FW: XGDI/XVNC server on Win2K
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Corinna,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the info.  I will pass it to Andrew.
> > > >
> > > > I had some problems with fullscreen version on NT 4.0 SP6.  I could
> > > > not get out of the x-server to access my Windows desktop.  I had to
> > > > kill it from Task Manager.  If the multi-windowing can be added to
> > > > it.  It would be great.  I would look into it once I have time.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Suhaib
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On
> > > > > Behalf Of Corinna
> > > > > Vinschen
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:54 PM
> > > > > To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> > > > > Cc: Cygwin Xfree
> > > > > Subject: Re: FW: XGDI/XVNC server on Win2K
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Has anyone  else tried XGDI server on Windows 2000K?
> > > > > > Below is Andrews Dr. Watson log file.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Suhaib
> > > > > > [...]
> > > > >
> > > > > Hans Xvnc V0.2 is running fine on W2K (RC2 and Final).
> > > > >
> > > > > I have found only one problem: The given geometry has to
> > > > > be smaller
> > > > > than the actual screen size. E.G if you have 1024x768 you
> > > > > should try
> > > > >
> > > > >   Xvnc -geometry 990x720
> > > > >
> > > > > or similar. I didn't really test the fullscreen option yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Corinna
> > > >
> > > >
> >