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RE: server X
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Alexander Stockdale'" <astockdale at computer dot org>
- Subject: RE: server X
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:12:01 +0400
Alexander Stockdale wrote:
> I think we really need to port XFree86 to the cygwin environment. I've
started looking into this, but it looks like it may be a big job (just look
at the size of the diff file for the OS/2 port).
>
Porting _Xfree86_ to win32 is a bad idea, because Xfree86 requires direct
video hardware access. The best candidate to port is sample X server
provided with X11 distribution - just create directory
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/Win32 and fill it with some code :-)
Another interesting possibility is to modify libX11 to display X requests
with Windows GDI calls if environment variable DISPLAY is not set or set to
"localhost". This case bundled Xnest server will act as X server (Xnest
compiles with cygwin and runs), and no X server will be required for local
X clients. Some related work already done in ntxlib package.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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