[ale] Windows Remoting X'ing

jeb jeb at rev-x.com
Wed Apr 14 08:01:36 EDT 2004


Thanks to all.  I decided to use putty and tightvnc on my windows box, 
it seems to do what I want it to do.

Geoffrey wrote:

> Drag0n wrote:
>
>>> There are several commercial X servers for windows. Exceed and
>>> hummingbird (are they the same? it's been a long time...) are two very
>>> complete examples.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Hummingbird Exceed is one app and another is ReflectionX is another pay
>> app. Micro Images ( http://www.microimages.com/mix/ ) has one called
>> MI/X 4.1 for Windows. There is also http://www.winaxe.com. Unfortunetly,
>> none of these are free. http://www.tucows.com/xwinserver95_default.html
>> has a few, but they all die after 30-60 min unless you buy them.
>>
>> Cygwin is the only one that I have found that is free, but you have to
>> deal with the bloat of an entire distribution running in the background.
>
>
> vnc is still free as well. I've not used the X server in a while though.
>



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