Key Features

X-Win32 Product Overview & Features

X-Win32: Next-Generation PC X Server

X-Win32, also known as X-Win32 LIVE is the most advanced PC X server on the market. While remaining the easiest to use, X-Win32 delivers the most complete set of productivity enhancing features and unmatched performance over both LAN and slow Internet connections. X-Win32 is the only PC X server that comes standard with integrated SSH, OpenGL and state-of-the-art session persistency to protect against session crashes. From network or server administration to designing the world's most advanced semiconductors, X-Win32 delivers the most cost-efective and secure solution for accessing remote UNIX and Linux hosts.

Check out the cutting edge features built into X-Win32:

Download Size: 43 MB
Installed Size: 63 MB

X-Win32 Client:

Versions 8 and above; Windows 2000 and above
Versions 7 and earlier; Windows 95 through Windows 2000

LIVE Server:

Linux 32 and 64-bit
Solaris 8 and higher (Sparc & x86)

Features available only in X-Win32:

X-Win32 is loaded with unique and highly useful features, not found in any other PC X server. Learn more about these features:

Session Persistency: Suspend and resume sessions on the remote Linux/Unix host or reconnect to them after experiencing a Windows, network or power failure.
Session Mobility: Start a session on your office PC, suspend it and resume the session from any other Windows PC, even from home.
High-WAN Performance: Experience LAN-like performance when connecting from home, over VPN or from a WiFi Hotspot.
USB Installation Option: Now you can start a session on one PC, take the USB key to any other Windows PC and resume your session.
Integrated SSH: Offers high-speed SSH connections to hosts behind a firewall.
Smart Copy & Paste: No more cumbersome drop-down menus, simply highlight text in X and paste it into Windows. From Windows, copy to the clipboard and paste into the X application by clicking the middle mouse button.
Graphics Screen Capture Tool: Copy graphics bitmap images from your Unix/Linux application directly into Word, PowerPoint or other Windows applications.
Ipsmart: makes it very easy to connect to a remote host from behind a DSL or Cable modem.
Advanced Window Caching: This technique dramatically speeds up screen refreshes and other X transactions.
Universal Keyboard Selection: Automatically configures X-Win32to the right keyboard for any language.
Session Folders: You can sort your sessions by host, by project, or any other way and save them into named session folders.
Password Updating: Host access passwords frequently change for security reasons. With this feature you can update the passwords for all your sessions on a particular host with a few clicks.
XML-Based Session Settings: Most PC X servers still use the problem-plaged system registry. X-Win32 sessions are stored in XML files that can easily be edited.
Detailed Connection Status Dialogs: Connection status dialogs with graphics show the progression of the connection, plus a log window to show warnings and errors specific to that connection. This makes it much easier to diagnose session connection problems and to see output from the remote command.
Dynamic Window Scaling: X-Win32 is the first PC X server having activated the RandR extension, you can now scale the remote desktop simply by grabbing the corner of the window and dragging it to the desired size. And you can scale the window to be larger than your actual monitor.
29 Languages: X-Win32 now offers localization for 29 languages.
Setting XResource Defaults: This feature allows X applications to be displayed just as they would on the Unix/Linux console.

Other Key Features:

Open GL Support: X-Win32 features OpenGL support including hardware acceleration, resulting in frame rates of up to 3,000 FPS.
Render: Extension support for Linux applications.
Simplest User Interface: We have gone to great length to create the simplest possible user interface. Different session types are identified with different icons.
Multiple XDMCP: Most PC X servers allow just one remote Unix/Linux desktop to be displayed. X-Win32 offers the ability to run multiple remote X desktops concurrently. This is a powerful feature as most end-users have applications running on various hosts.
Simple Session Configuration: X-Config offers many conveniences in the session configuration not found in any other PC X server.
Automatic Display Address Mode: Sets @MYIP@ to the local address that was used to contact the remote machine, eliminating the need to constantly select a different display address in X-Config, resulting in fewer session connection problems.
Desktop Shortcuts: With a single click, create a desktop shortcut for your remote X sessions.
Session AutoStart: You can store sessions in the "AutoStart" folder. Whenever X-Win32 is launched, these sessions are started automatically.
Multiple Monitor Support: Display your remote desktop over multiple monitors or display different remote and local desktops on different monitors.
Licensing Options: X-Win32 has both Node-locked or Concurrent licensing options.
IPv6: Compatable for all session types.
Session 508 Compliant

Screen Shot Tool for Graphical Copy & Paste

X-Win32 features our awe inspriing graphical copy and paste feature. This screen shot tool allows copying of rectangles, windows, and the entire screen, including copying areas from other non X-Win32 windows. In fact, you can use our screen shot tool as a general purpose screen shot tool if you wish. In addition, X-Win32 also includes a screen shot review window that shows you the area that was caputred and allows you to copy the scren shot to the clipboard, save it to a PNG file, or print it to any of your Windows printers.

X-Win32's Screen Shot (graphical copy and paste) tool selecting a rectangle from the screen.

X-Win32's Screen Shot (grpahical copy and paste) tool showing the screen shot review form, allowing screen shots to be copied to the clipboard, saved to a png file, or printed.

Color Settings for Legacy Application

X-Win32 includes the ability to set Xresource defaults, which tells your remote host that you are using an X Server that is capable of color display. This causes applications like xcalc and xterm to look like they would if you logged on to the console of your remote host; typically, these applications will have colors instead of being black and white like they are in other Windows X Servers. In addition, X-Win32 can also read a copy of your Xresources or Xdefaults file on your Windows machine, saving you the time and hassle of copying these files to all of your remote hosts.

X-Win32 showing Xcalc with Set Xresource Defaults enabled.

X-Win32 7.1 and earlier- showing Xcalc with default settings.

Simple User Interface

The X-Win32 user interface features an intuitive and clean design. We have simplified the user interface by automatically determining options that were previously set in the user interface; for example, the network address used to be set in the user interface and is now determined automatically for rexec, rsh, and xdmcp sessions. Below are screen shots showing the X-Config user interface, the tray menu, the Session Wizard that assists in creating your sessions, and one of the session status dialogs that gives you detailed feedback on the progress of your connection.

X-Config in Tabbed View on the Window from.

X-Config in Icon View on the Window from.

X-Config showing the Window form in Tabbed View (or Classic View).

X-Config showing the WIndow form in Tiled View.

X-Win32 8 - Tray menu showing the icons in the session sub menus.

X-Config's Session Wizard is visually improved for X-Win32 8.

X-Win32's tray menu, showing the session icons used to visually distinguish different session times.

X-Config's Session Wizard is visually improved in the latest versions of X-Win32.

IPv6:

Internet Protocol version 6 is supported.
IPv6 addresses/hostnames may be used for:
- StarNetSSH, rexec, rsh, and Xdmcp sessions
- The Display Address Override field on the Network form of X-Config
- X Font Server addresses on X-Config's Font form
The Display Address: Automatic mode sets the correct IPv6 address in the @DISPLAY@ and @MYIP@ command variables for use in your sessions.

Session Configuration Tool(X-Config) Features:

Hovering the mouse pointer over a session on the Sessions form shows a Tool Tip with the session settings.
Icon View opens each setting form in its own window; Tabbed View is still available.
Tabbed View has an icon on each tab to help visually identify the category.
X-Config forms are resizable, preventing frustrating problems with forms too small at high resolution.
The position and size of each window is remembered, allowing a more custom feel.
The Xauth cookie is saved to a file, offering tighter security for local X11 aplications or remote applications being started with rexec/rsh (if you save the file on a shared drive.)
X-Config's Security form is easier to understand. Previously, when the Xhost list was empty it meant that all X11 applications would be allowed to connect if the Access Control mechanism was turned off. Now, you must explicitly select 'Allow all host addresses' for this to happen, in addition, you can completely disable this mechanism by selecting 'Only allow these host addresses' and not adding any hosts to the list. (In this case, the list will show a single entry that says 'no hosts allowed.')
The Network form renames the Proxy display address option to 'Override' to indicate that this feature applies to more than just cases where a NAT or proxy session is in use (e.g. when you want to manually specify one of the several addresses that your machine is using).
The Network form shows the TCP Port that corresponds to the Base Display Number to provide better information for you when opening posts in your firewall (although we recommend that you instead use StarNetSSH and leave your firewall fully enabled).

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