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From: lbruck@eng.umd.edu (Lewis Bruck)
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Subject: Re: X Server for OS/2?
Summary: Reinterpreting the question...
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Date: 14 Feb 90 00:12:18 GMT
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In article <6119@umd5.umd.edu> oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer) writes:
>In article <NEATH.90Feb12153058@solar-1.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET> neath@solar-1.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET writes:
>>Has anyone heard of an X server that will run under PM for OS/2?
>C
>This seems a little awkward. Kind of like watching a television show on
>a TV on a TV but worse. Both X Server and PM (albiet very different) are
>windowing servers of a sort. The differences are greater. X is truely a
>server, for which front ends must be made. PM is both server and interface 

I am neither an X or PM expert, but it should be possible to have the X server
code running within a PM window.  It would be able to translate the low level
X packets into Gpi... calls and then interpret the mouse and keyboard inputs
into X packets.  The actual screen i/o for X is localized (for just this kind
of portability).  In terms of how complex such an port would be, it would be
dependent on how UNIX specific the actual code is, since OS/2 provides all
of the basic facilities needed, albeit in somewhat different flavors. It would
be interesting to compile the X11R4 system, if I only had the spare disk
space...

>Richard Oppenheimer		oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu

Lewis Bruck                     lbruck@eng.umd.edu