Re: Maxima cmucl patch



I use the xmaxima system which is, I think, bundled with Tcl.
I have a copy of Texmacs on a Knoppix stand-alone CDROM UNIX system.
I've use that twice.

If you want to replace xmaxima with something newer or better, I will
not use it unless it runs on Windows.

RJF


Stavros Macrakis wrote:

>>I also use cygwin on windows, and it works.  As a political 
>>issue, it helps wean users away from MS windows gui 
>>interfaces, and on to X windows user interfaces.
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>As a practical issue, Maxima must work well on MS Windows, politics be
>damned.  I don't really care *how* it does that, but it's got to be
>comfortable for Windows users.  Right now, I believe that to run an X
>application under MS Windows, you must create an X desktop window, and
>run your X applications within that window.  What's more, the X desktop
>window is not resizable.  That is a very clumsy way to operate.  In
>fact, it's an important reason that I'm not using Texmacs.
>
>But maybe I'm missing something.  Perhaps there is already software that
>allows you to run an X application in a window that looks like just
>another MS Windows window.  If there is, please let me know!  It doesn't
>seem technically infeasible, but someone's got to do it.  I don't even
>know what such a thing would be called: a single-window X server?
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