Cygwin/X can be made to listen to TCP with the option ‘’-listen tcp‘’ and can work great on WSL, multi-window mode and two directions clipboard.
X410 – X Server for Windows 10
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#32How does this website prevent me from zooming in on iOS?
Does not block zoom for me on ios 13.3.1 safari.
I stopped using Chrome in iOS 100% b/c it gratuitously honored every whim of any designer/developer to limit my ability to zoom into the screen. Safari has proven to be much less likely to prevent the same. On this x410.dev site I can zoom in on both, but I headed over to flickr to get that good chrome no zoom cortisol hitter.
I don't understand how this isn't an accessibility issue. My eyes aren't what they used to be and it's nearly impossible for me to see content some times. Yet enabling the actual accesibility features in iOS goes way overboard.
Drives me insane.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is nothing new, I have used X Windows servers on Windows all the way back to 1999, there are quite a few to choose from. If anything the amount to choose from went down not up, slowly replaced by RDP clients. So that tells who will will win.
That might change with WSL drastically increasing the demand for such a thing. With enough resources, doing it as an X server is the better approach because it gives more flexibility - top-level windows can be shown directly on the host desktop etc. And with enough demand, there are resources for something like X410... I've used both Xrdp and X410 for my WSL UI needs, and so far X140 has been a much better experience…
Yeah, as if that is anything new versus Cygwin with XWin32 for example.
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#34What are you guys using this for mostly?
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#35They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…
It's 80% discount for next 16 days in app store apprently
I just bought it on spec. The terms claim you can install it on 10 machines! $1/box is pretty cost effective.
I've paid for xming a couple times in the last few years. Doesn't quite cut it with certain applications; various show stopper glitches. Really would like to solve the X Windows on Windows problem once and for all.
There are other posts speculating on the code base; isn't this just X.Org for Windows repackaged? Yes, it is based on X.Org. The publisher explains it on the site; it's X.Org with pre-Window 10 support removed and otherwise optimized and enhanced.
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#36They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…
I don't know how much code is shared, if any, but I do know that xming and vcxsrv both crash for me constantly and X410 doesn't. Like, ever. I got it on sale, but I'd pay full price solely for the amount of headache it has saved me.
50 bucks is peanuts if it saves headaches
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#37What differentiates x410 from other x servers is that it support communication over VSock, which Hyper-V supports, and it's probably 3x less latency than tunneling x over ssh. Made it possible for me to comfortably use emacs in my hyper-v arch vm
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#38They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…
Sorry to break it to you, but there’s nothing immoral about repackaging open source software (even if there’s no value-add at all, which is not true in this case) and trying to make a living out of it, as long as it respects the license of the project being repackaged. On a more personal note, I checked out your profile and you don’t seem to be contributing to open source much, so maybe first try to bring us somethin…
I think you are mistaking legal obligations for morality.
I believe what they are doing is probably fine. However, without properly stating their value-add, it may be misleading to users that do not understand there are also open source options with very similar functionality. I think I get the idea, but nonetheless.
Legality and whatnot aside, I do believe there is a spirit of open source. Like, if everyone in the world behaved the “worst” they could while fulfilling all legal obligations, nothing would be functional at all anywhere. Similarly open source depends on certain behaviors, like sharing, community, etc. I believe everyone that uses open source, especially those who benefit off of it, should behave in a way that if everyone behaved like them, things would continue to function. In that vein, I hope they do contribute upstream where it makes sense to, at the very minimum, like applicable bug fixes. There’s probably no legal obligation to do so (X11 is MIT license, right?), and of course it would help their “competition” to do so. But I do believe it is certainly in the spirit.
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#40What are you guys using this for mostly?
I haven't used this Xserver, but I've used most (all?) of the free Xservers for Windows over time.
As background Windows is my preferred desktop environment for about the last ten years[1], but I do most of my "real work" on FreeBSD or Linux; having an Xserver on windows means I can do graphical work and have it mostly work.
Utilitywise, I can do things like running an image viewer to see what pictures I have in a directory.
I run mythtv; most of the administration can be done through the TV facing interface or the web interface, but some things need to be done with mythtv-setup; it runs terribly over remote X (for no good reason), but at least it runs.
I was writing a terrible NES emulator for fun, having an Xserver meant I could write it where I'm comfortable writing software, and display it where I'm comfortable with a desktop.
I'm writing a terrible operating system, which I run with QEMU for the time being; the VGA console is an X window (I support serial console and it's better than VGA, but I like to keep an eye on the VGA, because I'd like to run it on some of my home systems, and they don't all have serial ports).
[1] Although Microsoft seems to be trying to push people away again, running on the default platform has a lot of benefits.