X11R7.5 has been released

Posted Oct 27, 2009 2:58 UTC (Tue) by jlmassir (guest, #48904)
Parent article: X11R7.5 has been released

X11 in windows?! News to me. Is it called X-Windows already?

X11R7.5 has been released

Posted Oct 27, 2009 7:27 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link] (1 responses)

The phrase "X-Windows" appears only in your post. Alan quite carefully called it "The X Window System" rather consistently. :-)

And as for having an X11 server on a Microsoft Windows box, that's been around for quite some time via Cygwin. (If you look closely, you'll see the screen shots are dated 2003, so this isn't something that's happened terribly recently.)

X11R7.5 has been released

Posted Oct 28, 2009 0:51 UTC (Wed) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link]

Is the reference to Windows support in the release announcement referring to Cygwin/X, or something else though?

X11R7.5 has been released

Posted Oct 27, 2009 14:13 UTC (Tue) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

If you are looking for an X server to run on MS Windows you might want to have a look at Xming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming . I use Xming regularly in order to display the GUI of X applications (e.g. Konsole, Konqueror, Firefox, Gedit etc. on a Windows desktop. After starting Xming in multiwindow mode, I start Putty with the X forwarding flag set to login to the Linux desktop/application server, so I can run command lines on linux, which launch these GUI applications which display through the ssh connection on the MS-Windows desktop.