Every once and a while, I have a brain lapse.
A long time ago, my father showed me how to forward X applications from another system to my localhost with Cygwin.
Unfortunately, between that time and now, I had forgotten what he had showed me.
So, as a reminder for myself, here’s how:
The classic is assumed here:
- Cygwin is installed with X.
- Putty
- Remote system with X utilities
On the localhost:
Start Cygwin then type
$ X -multiwindow &
$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
Start putty:
Under Connection -> SSH -> X11 -> Forwarding
Check the ‘Enable X11 forwarding’
In the ‘X display location’, enter:
127.0.0.1:0.0
Open the connection to the remote host as normal from this point.
Once logged in, you can now open your X apps from the server
$ gschem
