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Sep 3, 2013 at 7:34 comment added Laurent Grégoire Thanks. If you only need a X server, indeed Xming is really better. Cygwin is a full blown Unix compatibility layer for Windows, and you end up using a small percentage of the system, even if you install the bare minimum for X.
Sep 3, 2013 at 3:33 comment added Penghe Geng +1 for mentioning Xming. Looks really good. I have been using Cygwin X for same purpose. Will give Xming a try.
Sep 1, 2013 at 19:01 vote accept spiderplant0
Sep 1, 2013 at 17:58 history edited Laurent Grégoire CC BY-SA 3.0
Add PuTTY Xming instruction.
Sep 1, 2013 at 17:52 history answered Laurent Grégoire CC BY-SA 3.0