On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:13, James B. Byrne wrote:
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Cygwin/X. Of the solutions thus far put forth, none are X windows clients (VNC, while good, is still not an X windows client) except Cygwin.
Setting up cygwin involves downloading the setup.exe program from www.cygwin.com, selecting to install the X server stuff (the ssh client is good, too, and works well), letting it download and install, and then putting a link to the startxwin.bat file either on your desktop or in Startup. It Just Works. The ssh tunneling needs the -Y command line option. There is a mode that lets you start up XDCMP processing in full-screen; there is an excellent howto on the Cygwin site.
I'm using Cygwin here on a daily basis, and it works fine and was simple to set up.