{"id":16,"date":"2008-05-14T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-05-16T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T11:02:55","slug":"displaying-linux-x-windows-on-a-windows-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Displaying X-windows on a Windows PC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are you still using VNC to log into your remote Linux box to display X back to your MS Windows box.
\nDo you find it slow and annoying having a Linux Desktop always displayed.<\/p>\n

Well a simple trick is to use a secure shell to log into the linux box, but also let that link send back X11 information to a local X-windows server. This is done by using the ‘ ssh -X ‘ command and then just running the apps that you want to see locally on your MS Windows PC.<\/p>\n

This by itself is something I find really well implemented and very cool.<\/p>\n

Now how to do this this in Windows?<\/p>\n

First you need two applications;<\/p>\n

Xming – Location<\/a><\/p>\n

Putty – Location<\/a><\/p>\n

Install Xming and run it (X will appear in your systray), this app makes it possible for any system to display X windows back to your system.<\/p>\n

Now start putty, enter the hostname of the remote Linux host and in the connection options select Enable X11 forwarding (find this option on the left under > Connection -> SSH -> X11) You can save this session with this option for later use.<\/p>\n

Initiate the connection with putty using the Open button, log in on the server<\/p>\n

Now you have the command prompt of the remote server and will be able to launch X applications on your local Windows workstation, for example try (if you have GNOME installed).<\/p>\n

gedit &<\/p>\n

Some tools will only run if you have root (or sudo) rights, like yast2.<\/p>\n

You also don’t need X running on the remote Linux side either, so this is also ideal when the Linux machine itself is in runlevel 3 (no GUI). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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