[ale] Open source X-Windows for MS-Windows workstations

[Matt Rideout]

I'm an occasional xming user for processes running on Linux boxen, and 
have never had an issue with it.

Dennis Ruzeski wrote, On 09/14/2009 09:45 AM:
> I use xming and xlaunch and they work perfectly for me. I use it 
> mostly to run HP-UX gpm and Informix OnPerf and haven't seen issues. 
> I've also used it for an XDMCP login to Linux, Sun, and HP systems 
> with 100% success.
>
> --Dennis
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com 
> <mailto:jlightner at water.com>> wrote:
>
>     Can anyone tell me what open source X-Windows package(s) you use
>     to display X-Windows on your MS-Windows desktops/laptops?
>
>      
>
>     In most of my jobs I’ve used Hummingbird Exceed ($$$) and it works
>     great.  
>
>      
>
>     Previously we installed Xming (a subset of the Cygwin stuff) but I
>     never really used it to a great extent.   The powers that be got
>     wind of Cygwin from someone else and now think they want to
>     replace Exceed with it.   However, my coworker had told me there
>     were some things he’d seen issues with Xming (though I never saw
>     them).   Does anyone have experience using Cygwin/Xming to display
>     commercial UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris) and Linux X-Windows?   If so
>     do you know of any gotchas such as rendering problems with
>     specific X apps?
>
>      
>
>     Does anyone have any other FOSS X-Windows package suggestion for
>     MS-Windws?
>
>      
>
>     Also as I recall there is another commercial X-Windows package but
>     its name escapes me.   If anyone is using that and has opinions of
>     it as compared to Exceed or Cygwin/Xming I’d be interested in
>     hearing it.
>
>      
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