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X11 for Windows

Here are a list of X Windows servers for Windows

X2Go

Requires an X2Go server on the target server. Creates a full remote desktop connection.

  • https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php
  • https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goclient

Note: X2Go is great for overcoming platform specific bugs like requiring certain versions of XQuartz for a given app on macOS

MobaXterm

Terminal / SSH chient with X11 support.

  • https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html
  • https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html (select Installer edition)

Note: works great for accessing CentOS/Ubuntu, but haven’t fully tested this personally to access X apps on macOS

Cygwin
  • https://x.cygwin.com/

Note: mileage varies depending on the repo (i.e., if it’s not up to date).

XMing X Server
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
  • http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Inspired by https://statistics.berkeley.edu/computing/x11-forwarding