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Xming v7.5.0.51 Private

Emka on 7 Jul 2012

19MB (uncompressed)
Suggested by Andrew Lee

Xming allows you to easily connect to remote *nix machines using the X protocol. It comes with clipboard integration and fullscreen support.

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Category:	System - Network (62)
System Requirements:	WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to:	None
License:	Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:	Download the program and font installers and install them to the default folder C:\Program Files\Xming Copy all files (except unins00.) into a folder of your choice Uninstall the program and fonts Launch XLaunch.exe Note: There are other ways to launch Xming than the EXE file, but this appears to be the simplest way (i.e. point-and-click)
What's new?	Update the FreeType2 project from its git repository, and the xserver, bitmap, ico, Mesa, pixman, xfontsel and xkeyboard-config from X.Org git. Allow the -from 'local-address' option to change the local-address bound by the xserver (i.e. from the default of 127.0.0.1 for IPv4). This works is all modes, not just XDMCP where the -from option is traditionally used, but currently only with inet, not inet6. Don't make the 'event' local variable static in mieqProcessInputEvents(), it could break re-entrancy. Add locking to make mieq thread safe (the same as in OSX). Wait for the xserver to finish initializing before letting other threads mieqEnqueue() (the same as in OSX). Try to prevent the option "Pin this program to taskbar" being available for processes not started sw_hide from Xmingrc, as they may not work the same way standalone without an xserver. Sanitise the titles of console windows started from Xmingrc. In order to use pthreads correctly don't link thread stubs into libX11, ouch! Enable the new ClearType bytecode in FreeType2 (tt_config_option_bytecode_interpreter + tt_config_option_subpixel_hinting). Build both plink.exe's, for the Xming installer, from PuTTY project SVN source as of 21 Jun 2012. Update bison to release 2.5.1 in the build toolchain. Build the installer using Inno Setup at release 5.5.0-unicode. Update the OpenGL extension headers and specifications from the canonical OpenGL Registry for use in the X server build. Note: the canonical gl.spec is now at odds with the Mesa code for the EdgeFlagv() function.

11 comments on Xming

jimmy 2008-04-03 07:08

When i try to run Xming-portable-PuTTY-7-3-0-15-setup.exe on my windows 2000 machine, it tells me that I need NT version 5.01 or greater. Anyone else with this problem?
-j

dannygjk 2008-04-06 09:51

Hi Jimmy,
Note that even if you have a machine that says, 'Designed for Microsoft Windows 2000', it must actually have an NT operating system installed.
dannygjk

dgd 2008-07-15 20:34

Description is essentially inaccurate; this is an X11 server that provides a display for applications running on other machines.

Oliver 2008-07-16 06:10

Note that doiung this way does not build a strictly portable app, because of the reference to the font directories in file font-dirs.

Create a file xming.bat in the base directory with following content:
%~d0
cd %~dp0
set FONTDIRS="%~dp0font-dirs"
echo # Generated dynamically > %FONTDIRS%
for /d %%i in ("%~dp0fonts\*") do echo %%i >> %FONTDIRS%

start "" "%~dp0xming.exe" %OPTIONS%

And then use this batch file to start xming

vjiyh 2008-12-10 21:31

i also have windows 2000 on my machine (with service pack 4). and no its not just on the sticker, it actually has win2k installed. i also get the problem with the xming installer saying it won't install on anything less than windows nt 5.01 (which is windows 2000 with service pack 1)

Michael51 2009-12-16 17:17

There is another application called "MobaXterm" ( http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net ) that provides an X server for Windows but also a lot of extra Unix tools and a great terminal that are really useful. It is already portable so it may be interesting for anyone using Xming! I loe it and use it everyday!

It seems to be completely stealth but I am not sure as I am not a portable software guru...

kgshadows 2010-01-18 17:23

This is not freeware, and I doubt it's open source.
Only the really old (6.9 from 2007) version is free download.
Update description or downgrade version.

John Doe 2010-05-19 19:51

I get this Windows 2000 error and it is really annoying. I cannot extract the package with 7z, thus I will try the MobaXterm program, above. Thanks Michael51.

marked 2010-06-18 20:16

I'm also running win2k (with service pack 4). Been running this same OS on this same computer since 2003 without a single reinstall... and I intend to keep using it for a while longer. No resolution to this problem yet? I see the first mention of this "NT 5.01" bug was posted over 2 years ago. I just installed the MobaXterm referred above. Excellent solution! thanks michael51 for the link!

Checker 2012-06-25 18:32

With V7.5.0.51 Xming seems to be "Donation-ware".
You have to donate to get a password for download.

V7.5.0.50

Midas 2013-05-10 14:05

(Very) Old free version (6.9.0.31) available for download at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

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