# 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.

<div class="entry-content" id="bkmrk-https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.x2go.or"><div class="entry-content">- https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php
- https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goclient

</div></div>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.

<div class="entry-content" id="bkmrk-https%3A%2F%2Fmobaxterm.mo"><div class="entry-content">- https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html
- https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html (select Installer edition)

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

##### Cygwin

<div class="entry-content" id="bkmrk-https%3A%2F%2Fx.cygwin.com"><div class="entry-content">- https://x.cygwin.com/

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

##### XMing X Server

<div class="entry-content" id="bkmrk-https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge."><div class="entry-content">- https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
- http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

</div></div>##### Windows Subsystem for Linux

<div class="entry-content" id="bkmrk-https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microso"><div class="entry-content">- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

</div></div>Inspired by [https://statistics.berkeley.edu/computing/x11-forwarding](https://statistics.berkeley.edu/computing/x11-forwarding)