A while back the topic came up either in the IRC or on the list about wanting to run an X11 app on a Linux server, and view it on a windows machine. Someone suggested Cygwin, but I just came ac across something else that might do the trick. From their site: Xming X Server for Windowshttp://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#sect-1Xming is the leading free unlimited X Window server for Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/Vista). Xming is fully featured, small and fast, simple to installhttp://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#head-13and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily transported [image: [WWW]]portable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_applicationsas a *Pocket PC X server*. It is totally secure when used with [image: [WWW]]SSHhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sshand optionally includes a special PuTTY SSH client http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#head-145 and a portable PuTTY replacementhttp://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/portableputty.php.
Xming is built http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/building.php for Microsoft Windows (32-bit x86) from [image: [WWW]]X.Orghttp://xorg.freedesktop.org/wikisource code kept current and secure with updates for [image: [WWW]]X11R7.3 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?o=age, [image: [WWW]]XKBhttp://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig, [image: [WWW]]FreeType2 http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html and [image: [WWW]]Freedesktop Bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/. My patcheshttp://www.straightrunning.com/Xming/are applied and the code cross-compiled with [image: [WWW]]MinGW http://www.mingw.org/ and [image: [WWW]]Pthreads-Win32http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ .
Ongoing Xming development is essential because its predecessor projects, [image: [WWW]]Freedesktop Xming http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming and [image: [WWW]]Cygwin/X http://x.cygwin.com/, have lapsed.
Xming is mostly a derivative work and has many licenses e.g. the zlib license, LGPLv2 for Pthreads, MIT/X11 for all PuTTY tools and the pixman library. The Xming server is licensed GNU GPLv2http://www.straightrunning.com/Xming/COPYING, but repackaging and/or redistributing any part (or whole) of the Xming website, documentation, images, executables or installers, by the internet, other projects/products or via media such as CD's, without asking permission, clearly acknowledging the contribution of 'Colin Harrison' and providing links to [image: [WWW]]StraightRunning.com/XmingNotes/http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/and [image: [WWW]]SourceForge Project Xming http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming will be regarded as a breach of copyright.
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 11:05:16 am Billy Crook wrote:
A while back the topic came up either in the IRC or on the list about wanting to run an X11 app on a Linux server, and view it on a windows machine.
There have been graphical X-terminal suites for Windows pretty much since Windows came out. The stunning thing about most of them was the price - last time I dealt with them they were around $250 per station. Most of the applications I saw were simple text terminal applications, but most had graphical capabilities as well.
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