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Has anyone had any expereince using the free MI/X x-server win95 version 
19 with a linux box ?  I have setup a network of 2 win95 
boxes and a 
linux box (486-66,16M ram,the Xfree86 (3.1?)that comes with Redhat 4.1, 
kernel 2.0.27, fvwm or twm 
supplied with MI/X) and got it working "sort-of".  My main problems are:

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

- emacs takes <10 minutes to start, that is when it doesn't simply crash

- 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.

- control-panel will not run at all, and crashes with messages about not 
being able to start the UI at some program line number and more messages 
about unsupported extensions for Xlib in the server, I suspect this also 
applies to all python programs.

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 !) ?

- is there something special that needs to be done to get ftp to allow me 
to lgoin, as no matter which account I use on the box, ftpd always gives 
me an "incorrect login" message.

- 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 !

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.

I would appreciate any comments/help that more experienced linux-net-X
people might have since while I'm not new to linux, I am new to the whole
network/X side of things and unfortunatly the How-To's and Faqs don't
really cover this area very well (though I'm learning alot from the 
o'rielly X admin book). 

Maksim Lin.