From: Raymond Toy <toy at rtp>
Hummingbird Exceed lets you have X windows appear on your Windows
desktop as if they were native apps, i.e., no separate X desktop.
Starnet X-Win32 does also: supports any number of independent X
windows, each with the standard Windows title bar and its standard
Minimize/Maximise/Close buttons. I've been using this this package
for ten years and cannot praise it too highly. It is my main screen
(because a PC remains the most inexpensive way to obtain a
high-quality large screen) and X-Win32 has always supported CLIM and
other X-based Lisp tools just like the native box servers, not to
mention Emacs with X. No problems -- it just works. Franz maintains
a number of floating licenses and pretty much all the technical staff
use it.
There is a 30-day eval and then an unexpiring demo mode. The demo
mode used to be hobbled with a 2-hour session timeout, but a quick
look at the web site suggests it may have been changed to some sort of
nagware. That might be sufficient for casual Maxima use. Otherwise a
single license is 225USD or 265USD, depending whether the license is
locked to a single machine or can float through a network.
Sorry for the effusive plug, but I'm not associated in any way, and an
application that works with this quality deserves a free plug.
To change the subject slightly, I suppose GTK would be a plausible way
to achieve runs-on-anything GUI portability, but doing the initial GTK
port for the Maxima tools would be a big job for someone.