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Below are steps on how to install and use Xming.

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Xming X Server for Windows

Xming is an X Window server for Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/Vista) freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/ .

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If you don’t already have an X Server software such as Exceed or X-Win32 installed on your PC, you can follow the procedure outlined here to install Xming and use it with SSH to run graphical applications remotely on a unix server in a secure way.

How to Install Xming on your PC

  1. Download Xming and Xming-fonts from SourceForge.net
    • Xming or Xming-mesa?
      • Xming uses Microsoft’s OpenGL renderer interface as standard (i.e. unless a Mesa version). You need the Mesa libraries or Mesa version when you have an awkward X client that’s failing to display. So, download Xming unless you want to try Xming-mesa.
    • Save the files in a convenient folder.
  2. To install Xming
    • Double-click Xming-*-setup.exe
    • Welcome to the Xming Setup Wizard: Next
    • Select Destination Location: take default C:Program FilesXming
    • Select Components: take default, click Next
    • Select Start menu Folder: take default, click Next
    • Select Additional Tasks: take default, click Next
    • Ready to Install: click Install
    • Uncheck Launch Xming, click Finish
  3. To install Xming-fonts
    • Double-click Xming-fonts-*-setup.exe
    • Welcome to the Xming-fonts Setup Wizard: Next
    • Select Destination Location: take default, click Next
    • Select Components: select all Fonts available, click Next
    • Select Start Menu Folder: take default, click Next
    • Ready to Install: click Install

How to Use Xming with SSH

  1. Start Xming
    • Start -> All Programs -> Xming -> Xming
    • Xming icon will appear at the bottom right of your screen.
  2. Configure your SSH client program to forward X11 connections (if not done previously)
    • See PuTTY SSH client if you don’t have an SSH client installed on your PC.
    • See PuTTY X11 Forwarding
  3. Use the SSH client configured with X11 Forwarding above to log in to the Unix server, and it will work with Xming to display the graphics on your PC.
  4. Note the DISPLAY environment variable will be set automatically, and you should not set it yourself on the remote host.
Xming
Xming
Original author(s)Alexander Gottwald (2004–2005)[1]
Developer(s)Alexander Gottwald (?–2005)[2][3]
Colin Harrison(2005 - present)[4]
Initial releaseNovember 9, 2004; 16 years ago
Stable release
7.7.0.38, proprietary
6.9.0.31, MIT License / August 31, 2015; 5 years ago, proprietary
May 4, 2007; 14 years ago, MIT License
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/Server 2012/8.x/10
TypeDisplay server
LicenseProprietary software[5]
Websitewww.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

Xming is an X11display server for Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows XP and later.[6][7][8]

Features[edit]

Xming provides the X Window System display server, a set of traditional sample X applications and tools, as well as a set of fonts. It features support of several languages and has Mesa 3D, OpenGL, and GLX3D graphics extensions[6] capabilities.

The Xming X server is based on Cygwin/X,[9] the X.Org Server. It is cross-compiled on Linux with the MinGW compiler suite and the Pthreads-Win32 multi-threading library. Xming runs natively on Windows and does not need any third-party emulation software.

Xming may be used with implementations of Secure Shell (SSH) to securely forward X11 sessions from other computers.[7] It supports PuTTY and ssh.exe, and comes with a version of PuTTY's plink.exe. The Xming project also offers a portable version of PuTTY. When SSH forwarding is not used, the local file Xn.hosts must be updated with host name or IP address of the remote machine where the GUI application is started.

The software has been recommended by authors of books on free software when a free X server is needed,[10][11] and described as simple[12] and easier to install though less configurable than other popular free choices like Cygwin/X.[13]

Transition to proprietary license[edit]

Since May 2007, payment must be made to download new releases.[14] Purchasing a license will allow the user access to new downloads for one year; however, MIT-licensed releases (referred to by the author as 'public domain' releases) can still be downloaded with no payment on SourceForge.[15]

See also[edit]

Xming

Notes[edit]

  1. ^'Alexander Gottwald - mingw only xserver'. sourceware.org.
  2. ^'Alexander Gottwald - New Cygwin/X and Xming maintainer wanted'. sourceware.org.
  3. ^'Xming - Freedesktop.org'. 5 December 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-12-05.
  4. ^Free as a Bird - Linux GUI with Xming, A Prisoner of Windows LG #129 ( August 2006), Linux Gazette - Xming is a port of the X.org X11 server to the Windows environment, currently maintained by Colin Harrison who took over from Alexander Gottwald.
  5. ^'Xming's Terms and Conditions'. Xming. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
  6. ^ abJoe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (2007-08-08). 'Use Linux over Windows with Xming'. Linux.com. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
  7. ^ abDavid Mair (2006-11-22). 'Xming - A X Server for Windows'. Novell. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
  8. ^Harrison, Colin. 'Xming X Server for Windows - Official Website'. wayback.archive-it.org.
  9. ^Harrison, Colin. 'Xming X Server for Windows - Code'. www.straightrunning.com.
  10. ^Van Vugt 2009:273
  11. ^Garrido 2007:366
  12. ^Iskander 2007:41
  13. ^Peckar 2008:182
  14. ^Harrison, Colin. 'Xming X Server for Windows - Official Website'. www.straightrunning.com.
  15. ^'Xming X Server for Windows'. SourceForge.

References[edit]

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  • Iskander, Magued (2007). Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education. Springer. ISBN978-1-4020-6261-2.
  • Van Vugt, Sander (2009). Beginning the Linux Command Line. Apress. ISBN978-1-4302-1889-0.
  • Garrido, José M; Richard Schlesinger (2007). Principles of modern operating systems. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. ISBN978-0-7637-3574-6.
  • Peckar, Mike (2008). Fognet's Field Guide to OpenView Network Node Manager - Revised. Lulu.com. ISBN978-0-9785627-2-4.

External links[edit]

  • Xming on SourceForge.net
  • WebCache of Original project homesite at the Wayback Machine (archived October 2, 2007)

Xming Linux

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