Xming For Mac
From Apple's Knowledge Base HT5293. X11 is not included with. A program named Xming is a free X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows. If I remember correctly, you need to do: $ ssh -X user@servername. And maybe this before the SSH: $ xhost + servername. From the SSH man.
Apple created the XQuartz project as a community effort to further develop and support X11 on Mac. The XQuartz project was originally based on the version of X11 included in Mac OS X v10.5. There have since been multiple releases of XQuartz with fixes, support for new features and additional refinements to the X11 experience. Apple is a contributor to the XQuartz project and has worked to ensure that X11 works as expected with macOS and latest available versions of XQuartz.
X11 server and client libraries for macOS are available from the XQuartz project at www.xquartz.org. Download the latest version available.
| Original author(s) | Alexander Gottwald (2004–2005)[1] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Alexander Gottwald (?–2005)[2][3] Colin Harrison(2005 - present)[4] |
| Initial release | November 9, 2004; 15 years ago |
| Stable release | 7.7.0.38, proprietary 6.9.0.31, MIT License / August 31, 2015; 4 years ago, proprietary May 4, 2007; 12 years ago, MIT License |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/Server 2012/8.x/10 |
| Type | Display server |
| License | Proprietary software[5] |
| Website | www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ |
Basic house design software for mac. Xming is an X11display server for Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows XP and later.[6][7][8]
Features[edit]
Xming provides the X Window System display server, a set of traditional sample X applications and tools, as well as a set of fonts. It features support of several languages and has Mesa 3D, OpenGL, and GLX3D graphics extensions[6] capabilities.
The Xming X server is based on Cygwin/X,[9] the X.Org Server. It is cross-compiled on Linux with the MinGW compiler suite and the Pthreads-Win32 multi-threading library. Xming runs natively on Windows and does not need any third-party emulation software.
Xming may be used with implementations of Secure Shell (SSH) to securely forward X11 sessions from other computers.[7] It supports PuTTY and ssh.exe, and comes with a version of PuTTY's plink.exe. The Xming project also offers a portable version of PuTTY. When SSH forwarding is not used, the local file Xn.hosts must be updated with host name or IP address of the remote machine where the GUI application is started.
The software has been recommended by authors of books on free software when a free X server is needed,[10][11] and described as simple[12] and easier to install though less configurable than other popular free choices like Cygwin/X.[13]
Transition to proprietary license[edit]
Since May 2007, payment must be made to download new releases.[14] Purchasing a license will allow the user access to new downloads for one year; however, MIT-licensed releases (referred to by the author as 'public domain' releases) can still be downloaded with no payment on SourceForge.[15]
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^'Alexander Gottwald - mingw only xserver'. sourceware.org.
- ^'Alexander Gottwald - New Cygwin/X and Xming maintainer wanted'. sourceware.org.
- ^'Xming - Freedesktop.org'. 5 December 2004.
- ^Free as a Bird - Linux GUI with Xming, A Prisoner of Windows LG #129 ( August 2006), Linux Gazette - Xming is a port of the X.org X11 server to the Windows environment, currently maintained by Colin Harrison who took over from Alexander Gottwald.
- ^'Xming's Terms and Conditions'. Xming. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
- ^ abJoe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (2007-08-08). 'Use Linux over Windows with Xming'. Linux.com. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
- ^ abDavid Mair (2006-11-22). 'Xming - A X Server for Windows'. Novell. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^Harrison, Colin. 'Xming X Server for Windows - Official Website'. wayback.archive-it.org.
- ^Harrison, Colin. 'Xming X Server for Windows - Code'. www.straightrunning.com.
- ^Van Vugt 2009:273
- ^Garrido 2007:366
- ^Iskander 2007:41
- ^Peckar 2008:182
- ^Harrison, Colin. 'Xming X Server for Windows - Official Website'. www.straightrunning.com.
- ^'Xming X Server for Windows'. SourceForge.
References[edit]
- Iskander, Magued (2007). Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education. Springer. ISBN978-1-4020-6261-2.
- Van Vugt, Sander (2009). Beginning the Linux Command Line. Apress. ISBN978-1-4302-1889-0.
- Garrido, José M; Richard Schlesinger (2007). Principles of modern operating systems. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. ISBN978-0-7637-3574-6.
- Peckar, Mike (2008). Fognet's Field Guide to OpenView Network Node Manager - Revised. Lulu.com. ISBN978-0-9785627-2-4.
External links[edit]
- Xming on SourceForge.net
- WebCache of Original project homesite at the Wayback Machine (archived October 2, 2007)