[COLUG] [OT] Older Solaris Programs crash under newer xservers

[Andrew Barr]

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 14:47 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
> Bill ...
> 
> What Rob said about changing the color depth should help.
> But you also mentioned Windoze based X servers.  If you need the app
> displayed on a Microsoft system,  you might be pleased with CYGWIN/X.
> The whole CYGWIN suite has "grown up" in my estimation,  no longer
> a toy or experimental thing.  I use it for day-to-day production
> work at the office and at home.

Also, if you just need an X server you can try Xming[1][2]. It supports
shortcut-based launchers and SSH tunnelling. For a full Unix-like
environment, Cygwin is your best bet. Xming is just a bit more
lightweight.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
[2] http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/