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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:08:31 -0400 
From:      "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG>
To:        'doug' <doug@safeport.com>, Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com>
Cc:        Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: [ot] good Xserver for Windows 2000?
Message-ID:  <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF18FB@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>

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Does anyone have any take on Reflection/X?

Ricky

doug [mailto:doug@safeport.com] wrote:
> I have used eXceed and use VNC to access a win95 box from 
> FreeBSD. I have
> not tried VNC on windows to access unix. I find on a 10BaseT 
> network VNC
> screen handling leave a lot to be desired. eXceed is transparent.
> 
> The bad part is eXceed is blotware. There is a ton of stuff that is
> probably useful in a corporate network but that I never 
> installed. They
> have (had??) a "lite" version that does X only for $125. Or 
> at least they
> did offer that in '98-'99. I quit using it as I started replacing win
> workstations with FreeBSD.
> 
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Christopher Weimann wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:11:04PM +0200, Walter Hop wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for a good X server (possibly commercial) to display X
> > > applications from my FreeBSD box on a Windows 2000 
> terminal. I've used
> > > MI/X from MicroImages in the past which was stable, but not very
> > > practical and feature-rich (non-integrated separated 
> "virtual desktop",
> > > no option to stay resident "low-profile" in the systray 
> when unused).
> > 
> > I didn't really like MI/X either.  I don't really want 
> > a the entire X desktop so I don't really tools like VNC
> > MI/X or Cygwin/XFree on Windows.  I just want the Xapp 
> > to appear in its own window on my 2k box.
> > 
> > Check out http://www.labf.com/winaxeplus/index.html
> > 
> > Winaxe supports several window modes.  
> > Multiple, Single, Full Screen and Multiple+RemoteWM.
> > Its $100 bucks and does everything I need.
> > 
> > I'm sure Hummingbird does everything Winaxe does
> > and more but I am also sure it cost a good deal more.

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