Archive for November 3rd, 2008
Run X apps on Windows
At work, I connect to remote servers through SSH. Sometimes, I use Hummingbird Exceed to forward X and xterm sessions to colleagues. Hummingbird is not only proprietary, but also prohibitively expensive, so I use the open source alternative at home: XMing.
In PuTTy, I enable X11 forwarding in the config (Connection > SSH > X11). In /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the remote host, I set up the following:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 0and do a service sshd restart. Once Xming is fired up and I’m connected to the remote box, I can issue something like xclock &, and the app gets displayed in my Windows machine:
