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Can someone point to a decent X server for windows?
by nikanj 9y ago
Can someone point to a decent X server for windows?
- eridius 9y agoFrom the article: > NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time
- zbuttram 9y agoNo plans to support specifically, but a surprising amount of things work simply due to their effort making the rest of it work.
- am1988 9y agoIt still works. X is a protocol, install a server and point at it. It's unsupported, which means it doesn't necessarily work well and they won't help you out.
- nikanj 9y agoYes, I know Microsoft doesn't have an X server. This is why I asked if people could recommend a 3rd party one.
- clouddrover 9y agoA Microsoft Channel 9 video on how to use XMING with Windows Subsystem for Linux: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/WinCoder/XMING--Bash-on-Ubuntu-on-Windows--X11-Window-System-Running-from-Windows10-Subsystem-for-Linux https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/WinCoder/XMING--Bash-on-Ubun... I think what they mean by "no current plans to support X/GUI apps" is that WSL itself doesn't include support for an X server but you can still go ahead and connect X applications to any running X server.
- kpocza 9y agoTry this one: https://github.com/kpocza/LoWe https://github.com/kpocza/LoWe
- pizza 9y agoI think Xming works
- saboot 9y agoThe free version of xming works for about 99% of things, the other 1% needs the updates provided by the charity ware version, or something more recent
- ruricolist 9y agoI've been using vcxsrv.
- dannysu 9y agoI've been using VcXsrv. I tried both Xming (donated and got the most recent versions) and VcXsrv. I found VcXsrv to be faster and dynamically picks up my screen resolution. Xming doesn't do that out of the box. However, I find that both are terrible when my network is a bit unstable such as when I'm in transit. That's the major pain point I have.
- emmelaich 9y agoCygwin/X is fine.