Hi
Xming works nice as a Xserver.
I was myself looking for an portable Xserver.
What I did is installed Xming with fonts on my PC and then copied the run directory to another pc ( on MY USB drive ) and ran xming
IT was great no errors ( till now )
It is small as 10 Mb ( default fonts ) and 30 Mb with fonts
Hope this info helps someone
bye
Amit Jain
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Is it much different than https://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp ?
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Hi
X Server and Xampp are different stuff
In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a protocol and associated software to provide windowing on bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on Unix, Unix-like operating systems, and OpenVMS, and is supported by almost all other modern operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and/or keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface – individual client programs handle this. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces.
X features network transparency: the machine where application programs (the client applications) run can differ from the user's local machine (the display server). X's usage of the terms "client" and "server" reverses what people often expect, in that "server" refers to the user's local display ("display server") rather than to a remote machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
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Amitjain
Yeah Xming is great isn't it! I use it with Putty pretty much every day.
Can I delete the fonts dir then? I have just got it as a standard install, but would like to strip it down...
Hi,
If you are using just the basic version ( without full fonts ).
You need the full folder, otherwise your xming server will crash or display will not be proper.
If you install the 2.8 version then you have 10 mb disk space. I suggest you atleast stick with this basic installer.
Just remove uninstall* files ( 2) should reduce by 1 mb
bye
Amit
If I install without fonts will it still work then? Basically, do I need to have an install with all the fonts?
From what I gather, Xming is a program for controlling *nix systems remotely using a Windows machine. Is that correct or am I a bit off?
Vintage!
Basically, you can connect to a Unix/Linux machine over the internet using something like putty. This brings up a text interface, looks a lot like cmd on Windows. If you want to run anything that has graphics then you need an Xserver. This is what this does. So you can get the graphics to show up on your windows machine basically. Extremely useful if you need to, very un useful otherwise
That's what I thought. Thanks.
Vintage!
So, once I've installed Xming and launched it, connected to my remote *nix server via Putty how do I run X apps? I tried launching KDE for example and got all kinds of errors. Please advise.
I haven't attempted running the whole of KDE, not sure if that is what it's really designed for as it will be pretty slow (try VNC or NXClient/Server for that) try loading emacs, that is an X application - it should run.
If not make sure you have enabled x forwarding in putty, it's in one of the options.
I just checked the box in Putty (X11) to allow forwarding and then I can run any app on my *nix box from w/in Windows--very slick! to run KDE or Gnome enter startkde or gnome-session, respectively. They aren't super speedy, but they run!