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Maksim Lin wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had any expereince using the free MI/X x-server win95 version

I have the MI/X server as well as Xwin32 on my Win95 machine talking to 
RH4.1 with 2.0.30 kernel compiled for IP Masq'ing to the Internet.

I can run most Apps I've tried OK, although I still haven't found a way
to 
start them without a telnet.  I have suffered some similar problems to
you though.

 - Keep getting messages about the server not supporting the Shape
> extension from Xlib (whatever that is)

Haven't seen any of these.
 
> - the file dialog and menus on programs like xdvi and ghostscript get
> "erased" with either all white or all black when ever I drag the mouse
> pointer across them.

Yep, Graphics does a few weird things.  eg: if I have an Image on the
root window and the Win95 scrrensaver kicks in, when returning to the
machine, the root window is back to a single colour unless I drag the
Xterm or whatever, which reveals the image underneath, so i have to use
it like a paintbrush to get my image back.

That's my main problem with it though, but I'm not a heavy user.


> On the more general networking front, is it supposed to take about 3
> minutes for a login promt to come up when I telent into my linux box from
> the win95's (using 10M ethernet cards ! and doing nothing else on the
> network, ping reports response of ~ 3.5ms !) ?

Ditto, unless I'm connected with PPP to the Internet, in which case it's
heaps quick to connect to the local machine.

I think it must be routing related, as My Win95 has the Linux machine in
its hosts file and vice versa, so I don't know if it's DNS realted.

Any help here MUCH appreciated !

> - is root allowed to login via telent, as at the moment all other users
> except root are allowed, so I have to keep logging in as something else and
> then using su !

Nope, not with RedHat, although this can be changed I believe (but don't
know how and haven't worried.)
 
> Apart from these problems, MI/X is really a very good product for the
> price (free) and seems to be the only freeware X server available, so
> congrats to MicroImanges for putting it out.

Yep, I'm impressed with MI/X too.  Xwin32 isn't bad either, but I can't
remember where I got it.

Please cc any replies to my E-mail (remove the NO_SPAM_THANX) as this
server is up and down like a yo-yo at the moment.

Thanks,
Andrew