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What is XMins

XMins is a distribution of the XWin server, a version of Xorg's X-Window server developed by the people of Cygwin/X.

Basically, it allows you to start an X-server to access an XDMCP-enabled host or to launch remote applications (i.e, connecting with PuTTY to a remote server with tunneling active and start remote aplications from the PuTTY terminal).

It's main advantage over the XWin server distributed by Cygwin is that you don't have to install Cygwin, just download and install the 2Mb installer and you get a fully-fledged X-server.

Requirements

• Microsoft Windows. All versions from 95 should work for the server, but some options for launching the X-server call a .vbs file, so you'll require Windows Scripting Host (see below). Xmins has been successfully tested on a fresh installation of windows 98SE, as well as various windows 2000 and 2003 installations with no problems.
• Windows Scripting Host(Should come installed with windows at least since windows 98SE.).

Installation

• Click on the downloaded file (xmins.exe)
• Adjust the directory where you want to install or leave the default one.
• Click on Install.

Screenshots

Usage

Just select the option you want to start in the start menu. Basically you have 5 modes of operation:

• Query mode: Query an XDMCP-enabled host by its hostname/ip.
• Indirect: Ask a host for a list of possible hosts and then connect to one of them.
• Broadcast: The same as above, but select automatically a server by broadcast.
• Multiwindow (rootless): start the X clients without a root window (the gray background), so that apps more or less get integrated in the Windows window manager, etc.
• Normal: Just start a server, like rootless, but you get the gray background.

Licensing

Everything directly related to the distribution (the installer script and the prompt.vbs script, basically) is released under the GPL, but the X-server itself is released under an X style license and the Cygwin dll is released under a modified GPL.

Download

• XMins 1.0

Contact

You can contact me for suggestions or whatever you see fit in the following address: juanjo@iteisa.com.

TODO

• Xkb isn't included (because it isn't working)
• A launcher for the X-server's various options, to avoid having 9 shortcuts on the Start menu.