RE: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

["Roger Barnes" <Roger.Barnes@xxxxxxx>]

> It doesn't do what cxoffice does, but it does what the 
> original poster asked - i.e. to be able to login remotely to 
> a linux machine from Windows and run a graphics interface on 
> the Linux which displays its windows on the Windows machine.
> 
> In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from 
> your definition of Gygwin as a simple "unix-api") then it 
> also includes a full port of the core
> XFree86 to Windows.

Cygwin has X.org now, and gtk, and gnome, and subversion, and rpm, and ... :)

I can vouch that remote X works, I've run a cygwin X.org server displaying applications running on my linux box over ssh.  Vnc might work better for you though, especially over slow connections with display intensive applications.

- Rog