Questions tagged [xming]
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difference between x servers in windows
I'm using Windows 10 Insider Preview with Windows subsystem for Linux enabled
I'm wondering what's the true differences between VcXsrv and Xming to view windows from Ubuntu in windows
I know the immediate differences with the settings, I meaning…
DanHolli
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Blurry fonts on using Windows default scaling with WSL GUI applications (HiDPI)
Is there a way to fix blurry fonts in linux GUI applications when being run from WSL (Ubuntu 18.04) using the default Windows scaling? Things I have tried so far:
With Xming:
Tried disabling Windows scaling and setting it from linux side using…
lol
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Error: Can't open display: 0
I installed WSL2 and I want to access WSL2 GUI apps from Windows 10. For this, I installed Xming and start it in "No client" mode. Xming startes, ok. After I open the WSL2 terminal and there execute these commands
export DISPLAY=:0
And…
Sizuji
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Font size with XMing X11 forwarding too small
I am using a GUI application running on a remote Linux host, but displaying on my Windows desktop using the XMing server, PuTTY with X11 forwarding, (and ssh -X as well, which is done by SLURM's srun with --pty option).
But the default font is a bit…
Evgeni Sergeev
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Xming clipboard only works one way
I recently started using Xming to display-back X11 applications from a Linux VM to my Win XP desktop. It's great -- much more useful than the solution I had before, which used VNC -- but the clipboard behavior is wonky.
At first, I couldn't get the…
Coderer
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Is it possible to change the look and feel of remote X applications running under Xming?
I am running Eclipse remotely right now, in Xming on my Windows pc, through an ssh tunnel from my laptop running Ubuntu 11.10.
As seen below, it doesn't look that bad, but it seems that my applications defaults to the standard theme when it cannot…
Rasive
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Problem with remoted display of java applications
I'm trying to remote display Java based development environments, such as NetBeans and IntelliJ, from a linux machine to a windows machine. When I do this, the right click functionality of the environments does not work, which makes them unusable. …
nathan
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Problem with resizing Subwindows in Eclipse Xming combination
I'm running Eclipse on a Linux server and I'm displaying it locally through xwindow forwarding using xming. Whenever I create something like a subwindow (like opening project properties or the Project Explorer when when pulled out of the main…
private_meta
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New Xming Windows Doesn't Grab Focus
I do my day-to-day work on Windows 7 (no, that's not going to change) and often need to work with Linux running on Parallels. Switching between Windows and Linux desktops is a pain, so I've installed Cygwin+Xming (less complicated than CygwinX). I…
Isaac Rabinovitch
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_tkinter.TclError: couldn't connect to display "localhost:0.0" matplotlib bash on windows
Insipired by the problems with displaying matplotlib used in a Python script using the terminal of the Bash (Ubuntu) on Windows, I have followed the instructions listed in the first answer. However, after restarting the computer, suddenly I get an…
fgh
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Use accelerated graphics on Windows 10 Linux subsystem with Xming?
I've got Ubuntu 16.04 running in Windows 10 16251.0 as a Linux subsystem, and I've got Xming-mesa 6.9.0.31 installed.
I launch Xming using Xming :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
Then in my Ubuntu bash shell I type export DISPLAY=:0 and I can launch…
geofurb
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WSL2 won't use Xming on Windows 11
I'm using WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows 11. I've noticed that when you open a GUI app like xmGrace or Gnuplot, WSLg opens the GUI app through the "Remote Desktop Connection". So Xming is not used even I've installed it. The problem is that the…
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Why are WSL GUI apps rendered with blurry fonts with Xming?
When I try to use Xming with WSL to run GUI programs, I see fonts with grayscale anti-aliasing, like with Firefox as you can see here:
This happens with every distro I've tried (Arch and Ubuntu), and it makes me want to poke my eyes out, but for…
user541686
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Why is delay with VcXsrv so much slower than Xming when X11 forwarding
I was beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why opening an application through X11 forwarding was taking so long. To open the simplest app like xclock was taking ~20 seconds for the GUI to appear. This was with VcXsrv.
After…
mtleng
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WSL: QT application fails to start
I have compiled a simple QT Quick application (using Ruby-Qml, but I don't think this matters) on Ubuntu (18.04) via WSL on Windows 10 v1903 and get the following error when launching with Xming.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting…
