Hi Stavros.
| Thanks for the info on cygwin. Apparently the relevant cygwin
| functionality is "rootless mode" and is still experimental. All X
| windows appear over any Windows windows, but that is acceptable. A
| search found some information on how to set it up at
| http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=144322. I will
| have to try it. Has anyone else tried it?
When last I tried XFree86 on Windows in multi window mode (about 6 months
ago to run GRASS) it was much less stable than in single window mode (hours
before a crash as opposed to up to a week with no problems).
I have tried about 4 commercial X servers on Windows and all of those do the
separate window bit rather than a single window. The price you pay apart
from cost is that they tend to take over your computer - especially
noticeable with XVision.
As a matter of interest, most of the support requests from Windows users of
a commercial cross-platform software package I am familiar with are about
the various X Servers the clients use rather than the product itself - a
significant drain on support resources and not one that a small open source
development team needs to get into. The same goes for the GRASS system I
mentioned the other day.
Cheers
Mike Thomas.