HOBLink X11

HOBLink X11 is an integrated X Window System server package that allows you to use your PC running OS/2 as an X Window server for both remote clients and for a local X11 client applications that are based on XFree86/2 libraries.

Features

In addition to the basic X11 Server functionality and associated features the HOBLink system features Telnet Terminal Emulation, a GUI for for the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), support for LPR (remote printing), Ping program for testing the configuration and the physical connections, automatic program start via REXEC and RSH for hosts that are not capable of XDMCP (e.g. Tektronix), Numerous character sets for on-screen display of the standard X character sets and support for remote font libraries, virtual screens and three button mouse emulation.

The HOBLink X11 is fully multi-client, i.e. you can open up windows from multiple hosts at the same time and allows copy and paste between the X clients and OS/2 programs. It can operate in one of the three following modes:

• Multiple window mode Where each X client is displayed in a separate Presentation Manager window. OS/2 assumes the task of the X Window Manager (displaying and managing the windows)..
• Single window mode All X clients are displayed in a single window, in the X-Session window. The management of the windows can be handled by remote window managers.
• Full screen mode All X clients are displayed outside of the OS/2 GUI. The X session occupies the entire screen.

Versions

• Last known version: 3.5 (Conforms to the X Window System Standard 6.4 which is the current one as of early 2016)

eComStation 1.x came bundled with a version of HOBLink X11 3.5 that would only work on eCS systems but not on older OS/2 systems, while HOBLink appears no longer to be bundled with 2.x versions of eCS it still works on those systems if the correct ecsreg.ini entry is moved to the eCS 2 system.

HOBLink X11 running in "Single Window Mode"

Links

• Per Johansson: HOBLink X11 Server - Getting Started - Originally published in the VOICE Newsletter November 2003.
• Original HOBLink X11 product page - Deleted page recovered via Archive.org
• Running Local Applications Using HOBLink X11 under OS/2 - Using HOBLink X11 to run UNIX applications locally with the help of a XFree86 client - Deleted article recovered via Archive.org
• Original HOBLink X11 sales brochure - PDF file - Deleted article recovered via Archive.org

License & availability

• Discontinued commercial software.

Publisher

• HOB GmbH & Co. KG.