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Comment by nikanj | Hacker News Reader

Can someone point to a decent X server for windows?

I've been using VcXsrv.

I tried both Xming (donated and got the most recent versions) and VcXsrv. I found VcXsrv to be faster and dynamically picks up my screen resolution. Xming doesn't do that out of the box.

However, I find that both are terrible when my network is a bit unstable such as when I'm in transit. That's the major pain point I have.

I've been using vcxsrv.

I think Xming works

The free version of xming works for about 99% of things, the other 1% needs the updates provided by the charity ware version, or something more recent

From the article:

> NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time

No plans to support specifically, but a surprising amount of things work simply due to their effort making the rest of it work.

Yes, I know Microsoft doesn't have an X server. This is why I asked if people could recommend a 3rd party one.

A Microsoft Channel 9 video on how to use XMING with Windows Subsystem for Linux:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/WinCoder/XMING--Bash-on-Ubun...

I think what they mean by "no current plans to support X/GUI apps" is that WSL itself doesn't include support for an X server but you can still go ahead and connect X applications to any running X server.

Try this one: https://github.com/kpocza/LoWe

It still works. X is a protocol, install a server and point at it.

It's unsupported, which means it doesn't necessarily work well and they won't help you out.

Cygwin/X is fine.

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