MobaXterm will add to the title bar of any windows that pop up to show that they are running from an X session.įrom here, you can quickly use the saved user session to reconnect again. The tabs along the left have useful tools, games, and more. Once authenticated, MobaXterm will display a message with information about the session, followed by any information from the connected computer. From here, you can run commands and open programs normally. MobaXterm will start a new SSH session in a tab and prompt for your password. Leave the rest of the settings at their defaults. Select OK Select the Advanced SSH settings tab and then make sure the X11-Forwarding box is checked. In the window that pops up, select SSH, then enter the computer you wish to connect to in the Remote host field. You can check the box for Specify username and enter your username as well.

Start a new session by selecting Session.

If you get a prompt for firewall access, select Allow access. It will be a little slow for the first launch. MobaXterm is a cool terminal emulator with a ton of features.

Using PuTTY with Xming, as PuTTY is a popular SSH client for Windows.

Using MobaXterm, which is a new, feature-rich client.

The following screenshot was taken on Fedora 31 running Gnome 3.34.4įrom Windows, you need to have an SSH client and an X server installed, as these are not installed by default on Windows. Your mileage may vary depending on your choice of desktop environment/compositor/implementation of X/etc. To do this, use the -X flag with your SSH command: ssh -X launched through X forwarding will usually have a message like this in the title bar saying “(on computername)” to help distinguish that it is running through X forwarding. Even if you run Wayland (in distros such as Fedora), XWayland provides backward compatibility with X. From a Linux ComputerĪlmost all distributions will support this out of the box. Please visit our KB article for more information about using Xpra. X forwarding should be avoided unless for convenience or if an application does not work through Xpra.

Xpra is a program with similar functionality to X forwarding, but much faster and with helpful additional features.

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