Sunday, February 10, 2008

X Servers for Vista

I expect I'm in the minority here (How many Vista users use/want an X server?) but If you have been having trouble getting Cygwin's X servers working properly with Vista check out Xming (sf.net) (developer's website). Xming is a somewhat fancier port of Xorg to Windows systems that works quite well on Vista. You can use it with any of the Cygwin apps or probably more useful, a SSH client like PuTTY

If this hasn't become apparent already, I really don't have the time to be posting here very often so this is going to turn into a collection of quick tips like this one with only very occasional updates for the foreseeable future.