Re: tlug: X Windows client

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Totoro wrote:

> >I was wondering if anyone knows of a good X Window Client for M$ Win95 that
> >works with a Linux X Server?  The platform I need is for Win95...
> 
> Well, I can't vouch for it being good, as I haven't used it. But here is a
> freebie:
> 
> http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix.htm

It's called MI/X. I've seen it in action. One or two of my colleagues
use it to run apps that they can't get in a Windoze version (. . . so
you'd think they might consider breaking the MS habit--ha, ha, ha! If
only!).

Anyway, it works. Not very impressively, but, what the hey! Freeware for
Win95, right? It comes with TWM as a Window Manager, and as far as I
know you don't have any choice about that.

> 
> I think it's designed to be an X server but supposedly can be set up as a
> client.
> 

Here I think we're running into the usual confusion about X--what's a
client and what's a server. If I'm not mistaken, Michael Chiu has a
Win95 desktop box, and has access to a network host running Linux. And
he wants to run apps on that remote host and have them display on his
desktop machine, right? In which case an X server on his Windows machine
is exactly what he needs--it's not a matter of 'setting it up' as
something else. Because, for purposes of X, the application (which runs
on the remote host--what we usually call the 'server') *is the client*,
and the X server (running on his local machine--what we usually call the
'client'), provides display services.

I apologize if I seem to be preachy or showing off. Just looks to me
like people are confused about this (I was for a long time). And who can
blame them?! I think somebody needs to come up with more intuitive
terminology to explain how X works (by the way, I *still* can't get my
head around the XDM manpage . . . if someone could explain that to me .
. . :-).

By the way, Michael--or is it Mikio? If you don't think there's enough
software for Linux/X, check out this:

http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml

And that's just the beginning.

Matt Gushee
matt@example.com't

Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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