Robert Basler posted a solution in the ecomstation.apps newsgroup at news.ecomstation.nl

Thank you, however I finally solved it last night after digging around a
lot on the internet. In order to get it and the Gimp working I had to:

Put X-Startup in the Startup group (I'm going to take it out again, see
below.)

In X-Settings:
Set Window Mode List to Multiple Windows (the default full screen hangs)
Set X Depth to the actual color depth of the display, (in my case 24)
otherwise fonts and images were mangled.
Set Connect Host as 127.0.0.1
I turned on Use DIVE Extension, this isn't strictly necessary as it
worked without it.

Modify CONFIG.SYS to add the following:

SET HOSTNAME=YOURHOST
SET DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
(interestingly enough, 2 of the above lines where already in config.sys, just REM'ed out)

Gimp needed the following as well

SET TERM=ANSI
SET TERMCAP=C:/XFree86/lib/etc/emx.termcap.X11
SET HOME=C:/HOME
SET X11Root=C:

Add C:\\XFree86\\bin to your PATH and C:\\XFree86\\lib to your LIBPATH.

Make sure you have the line

127.0.0.1 localhost

in your \\MPTN\\ETC\\HOSTS file and the loopback interface enabled in the
TCP/IP setup.

To get the GIMP running:
Install all of XFree86 so that the .DLL's for the apps you want to run
are there.
Install everything from "Gnome base" at
[link|http://pluto.spaceports.com/~os2/gnome_download.html|http://pluto.spacep...ownload.html] (NASTY POPUPS!)

It still gets VERY unhappy if it is not connected to the LAN, basically
hanging WPS except for intermittent bursts of activity. But that seems
to be documented. Just means that I can't leave the startup object in
startup if I ever want to be able to use the PC when not connected and i
have to change my TCP/IP settings to disable the LAN interface if I want
to use the Gimp when I'm on the road.


I've not messed with Gimp yet, but I did try a few small programs like freecell and same-gnome. I've not yet gotten enlightenment/2 to work, it's complaining about LIBAUDIO missing. TWM and other window managers seem to work well, though it'll take a bit of work to get it set up "just right". One thing I don't like is I'm ending up with lots of "command windows", one for each X11 program I start. I suspect this will go away once I set up the window manager to start the programs.