In article <foisys.872813521 at cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA>,
Foisy Sylvain <foisys at ERE.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
>Hi there,
>>I want to use the MI/X server on my Mac under MacOS8 for using the SeqLab
>module of GCG. Each time I tried, I telnetted to my machine, started SeqLab
>after redirecting the display to my display's adress and switch to MI/X open
>in the background. MI/X would then quit without explanation, my server telling
>me that my X server connection was broken. I don't think that MI/X is totally
>to blame since xclock and xterm are working.
>>I know that I sould use something more powerful (like MacX 1.5 or eXodus)
>but free software is hard to beat... I'm also new to the world of X.
>>Any clue...
I have had all manner of problems with MI/X. It only worked at all on
two out of three Macs I tried it on, and on one of those it did work
on, SeqLab caused the problem you describe. Eventually I abandoned
it. It may be free, but if you can't use it, that doesn't help much.
The Windows version of MI/X seems much better (but then there are some
extremely inexpensive X servers for Windows which are streets ahead of
MI/X; XWin32 for example, which is very cheap, especially compared to
the more dominant products like eXceed. Plus of course, the PC has
Linux, which gives you a 'real' UNIX X server for free. I don't know
whether the port of Linux to the Mac ever got as far as supporting X.
