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Dave Yeo:
It's is possible to run the VNC X video driver and display the X session on the desktop on PMVNC, be sorta seamless mode.
There's also alternative X programs such as HobX, http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/x11/ux1135.zip for a seamless X server.

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Dave

It seems it worked by using your files. This is what I did.
1) I unziped the XFree86 files with the two fixes from netlabs. I add them on my  "x:\usr". X:\ is my primary partition on the ArcaOS machine I have.  I found a conflict on x:\etc\fonts\fonts.conf. I just leave the newer one from my system and did not used the one from XFree86.
2) Copied Dave's XF86Config to x:\usr\x11R6\X11
3 ) Copied Dave's xfEnvSetup.cmd to the root and modified it with my drive and trying to point direcctly to the paths (sorry but I don't get the %1 thing)
4) Added to my config.sys path "x:\usr\X11R6\bin;" and to the libpath "x:\usr\X11R6\lib;"
5) Added to the config.sys file "DEVICE=X:\usr\X11R6\lib\xf86sup.sys"
Reboot
Run the xfEnvSetup.cmd and see the X interface running.

I'm attaching the modified just in case someone wants to try it out.

Now I need to learn how to run some games, tools and take some screenshots. 
Thanks Dave for helping me with this, I wanted to run XFree86 since long time ago.

Regards

Dave Yeo:
Hi Martin, glad it is working for you.

--- Quote ---3 ) Copied Dave's xfEnvSetup.cmd to the root and modified it with my drive and trying to point direcctly to the paths (sorry but I don't get the %1 thing)

--- End quote ---

The %1 thing is the first parameter to xfEnvSetup.cmd, so you'd run it as

--- Code: ---xfEnvSetup X

--- End code ---
To make it more portable

--- Quote ---4) Added to my config.sys path "x:\usr\X11R6\bin;" and to the libpath "x:\usr\X11R6\lib;"

--- End quote ---
Also so you didn't need this in your config.sys as xfEnvSetup.cmd took care of adding it.

To start programs, IIRC

--- Code: ---start /n program

--- End code ---
In an xterm or on the OS/2 desktop

--- Code: ---start /n program -display 0:0

--- End code ---

Martin Iturbide:
Hi

I'm testing some games like xkobo and xgalaga and I get errors like:

--- Quote ---xkobo: (warning) can't read score-file X:/XFree86/lib/x11/xkobo/0
--- End quote ---

The path is wrong since I'm just putting the bin on X:\usr\X11R6\bin.  Is this some configuration thing? or the path was hard coded on xkobo  when compiled?

Regards

Dave Yeo:
The PATH was probably hard coded. Xfree86 3.3 and earlier were installed in x:\XFree86 rather  then \usr\X11R6. At that Holger at one point had a nice installer that installed XFree86 along with TVFS and set up a bunch of symlinks to have it installed on X: as a TVFS volume. The advantage was that all volumes could also be symlinked to X: so those programs that didn't understand drive letters could see all drives.

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