X Emulator of choice ??

[Stephanie Nicholls]

Which PC X emulator do people use and which do they prefer ??

I have used Hummingbird Exceed in the past and want to get something in my new site however its pretty pricey for even a single seat license and I have to convince the boss to spend the money.

Any comments welcome.

Thanks

Steph

[harry d brown jr]

Sorry, but I spent two years getting my company to switch thousands of pc's from Reflections to the better product: Exceed!!!

Of course a PC with Linux on it would be better.

live free or die
harry

[Michael Tully]

Hi Steph,

For choice, definitely Exceed!

For price.... there is a freebie called 'VNC'. You can get it here. Download it and try it out. You might think that free that does something (VW Beetle) is better than the expensive but more slimline (Porsche)
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html

HTH
Michael

[Misa]

My favorite X emulator is an HP X terminal, followed by a D350 or a SunBlade 100. :)

I've had unhappy experiences with both Exceed and PCXware.

Fortunately, I don't have to deal with PC X emulators right now, but the next time I have to, I plan to try the Cygwin stuff.

www.cygwin.com

--M????a

[Vijeesh CTK]

hi

the best X emulator is X manager its a nice software.U can download it from http://www.netsarang.com

One more is Xthinkpro that u will get from http://www.lab-pro.com

Cheers

CTK

[Patrick Wallek]

I, too, like X-Thin Pro. It is a reasonable size to download. They have a free trial that will work for 15 or 30 minutes at a time, so you can try it out for free.

I have even used X-Thin Pro over a dial-up with pretty good success. It wasn't real fast, but it worked!

X-Thin Pro info:
http://www.labtam-inc.com/index.php?act=products&pid=9

X-Thin Pro download:
http://www.labtam-inc.com/index.php?act=download&pid=9

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Look at Linux

Cheap easy . unix flavour. I use an old PC with redhat and can connect in Graphics to several HP Boxes at the same time.

HP has a GNOME for UX so you can even standardise what you see.


Steve Steel

[Stefan Farrelly]

Definitely EXCEED. Tried lots, this is the easiest to setup and use and the least problems with fonts, Xresources etc.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Hmm, fun I would say Reflection, and not Exceed. Definitely.

Then again, I am in the advantage that I have some influence, because I'm in the WRQ alpha test team, and currently use Reflection Suite for X 10, which is much better than all previous versions and finally supports the scroll wheel in X. Has superb support for dual head display and is very reliable.

For the free stuff, I'd recommend Cygwin, which since a month or two has X11R6 port available in the default setup and does not need jumping through many hoops to get it to work. Cygwin however ships with twm, a somewhat braindead window manager. fmwm is much better and is rather easy to move to coming from CDE

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
http://www.fvwm.org/

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Steph,

i work with ReflectionX and if you configure it properly it works ok. But you should not use it as a standard installation.... *brrrrr*

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter