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Re: Remote X windows



Hi, Yedidya Bar-david!

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:49:43AM +0200, you wrote the following:

> BTW, I think there is a free (shareware?) Xserver for win32, don't
> remember details, but look at windows archives.

I suppose you're talking about MI/X
(http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/). I used it and it's
substandard. It only runs full-screen (can't use Windows as the window
manager), doesn't support XDMCP or anything of the kind (so you have
to telnet to the remote host and start applications from there), and
any window manager that's a bit more complicated than twm (an .exe of
which comes with it, BTW) crashes it very fast. In other words, it's
not generally usable.

> I can add that I found linux on a 486 with 8 MB RAM to be quite
> a good Xterminal (for my purposes), and anything on win32 needed at
> least a Pentium 100 with 32 MB to come close.

I noticed that on machines of that kind (486 with 8 MB of RAM) opening
Netscape windows takes a lot of time (10-15 seconds or so). Everything
works perfectly, just opening Netscape windows is slow. And it only
happens with Netscape 4. On other X-terminals which are more powerful
machines, on the same network, these windows open much faster. I
wonder what the hell is Netscape doing to achieve this exclusionary
effect.

> (I keep saying win32 becasue there are big differences between
> win95/98 and NT in this issue - do check your configuration).

Could you elaborate on this topic a bit? I'm not sure I understand
what you mean here.


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