

This way X applications are (re)directed to output to a remote X Window server. Then try something like xclock to see if X11 forwarding works: # xclock &Īnother way to use X11 apart from ssh is to set the DISPLAY variable manually to point to an IP address like: # export DISPLAY=192.168.0.1:0 When you configured the X Window server and PuTTY and logged in to your host you can verify the DISPLAY variable if a DISPLAY is set: $ echo $DISPLAY Where the 10.0 depends on what the X Window server is listening on.

Once you have an X server running on Windows you can use PuTTY to connect to your host after you have set the configuration parameters: Connection/SSH/X11 Some options of a X windows server are XManager, XMing and MobaXterm.

Yes, this is possible in a few different ways but you will need an X window server for Windows.
