X11 support in all VMs?

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Tue Apr 3 12:57:26 UTC 2001


That's a great idea...I think Tom mentioned doing exactly that for the Mac
(and he brought up the idea in a private email).

I think it would be nice if all VMs could support displaying to an X server
(ideally as a VM plugin).

- Stephen

> >Also, I would not recommend the VNC server on Windows...it
> doesn't catch all
> >of the updates and it's very difficult to operate Squeak.  The X
> based VNC
> >server on the other hand seems to work very well with Squeak (at least it
> >does on Linux).
>
> Has anybody considered compiling/linking the Windows VM with the X client
> libraries? The end result is an app running under Windows that wants to
> talk to an X server, either locally or remotely.
>
> There clearly is Squeak source code to talk to X client
> libraries, although
> the make file and #ifdef's may make assumptions about X and Win32 being
> mutually exclusive.
>
> - Jan
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