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What are my X client options for MS Windows?

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Mar 15, 2026103205 views
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I need to connect to a headless X Windows server (running on Ubuntu) from my MS Windows 7 computer over a 100 Mbit network. I could use VNC (or any other remote viewer) but the 3D graphics performance would be lousy I imagine. I used to have it hooked up to a monitor, but that's broken now and I ca…

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Xming is popular and free, although since I use the rest of Cygwin anyway, I tend to use Cygwin's X server. Oh and by the way, the client/server terminology in X seems backwards until you think about it the right way: servers are the things that pro…

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