Software:X-Appeal

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X-Appeal - Trial Version 3.1.2 - is an X-Window system server - for DOS. And works under DOSBox with SLIP configuration, e.g. several xeyes processes from ubuntu host are placed to the screen:

Dosbox xappeal slip.gif

The installation is straightforward, you have to do the usual next-next-finish procedure and before that: configure a launching script and environment like here: Slip_configuration_on_linux_host. Also necessary to do some extra tweaks in the C:\XAPPEAL3 folder, create X0.HOS file with content:

192.168.7.1

So from now, executing x applications on ubuntu host in a 192.168.7.0/30 slip ip configuration, is allowed (after launching X.BAT in C:\XAPPEAL3). Like this:

DISPLAY=192.168.7.2:0 xeyes -geometry 150x150-151+151 &