Re: Using putty for an X session

[Steven Kurylo <kurylo@home.com>]

Unless I am reading the putty "wishlist" wrong, putty doesn't support X in 
its current form

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html

Unix/X (need a local-xterm back end)

At 02:08 PM 22/11/00, you wrote:
> Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to be able
> to use Putty to connect to my machine. I can bring up a standard SSH2
> session but I am ignorant when it come to starting an X session remotely.
> How do I go about getting X on my machine at work? I know it has to do
> with starting X on a new display. Should I use startx -display ?????? and
> if so what is that display.
> Thanks
> Adam Edgar
>
>
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