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XMing is the best X Server out there for windows. Fast and nice rendering, in active development.
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Troubleshooting
Freeze at startup / login
This happens on recent release (7.7.0.52).
- Workaround: try to disable WGL (AIGLX).
- Workaround: don't use XLaunch, rather start XMing and Plink separately. File XMing.bat:
@echo off
REM Cheap Xlaunch.exe replacement.
REM On XMing 7.7.0.52, XMing freezes when logging in when using Xlaunch.
REM
REM Workarounds:
REM * Start Xming.exe and plink.exe separately (without using Xlaunch)
REM * Disable WGL in XLaunch config
set XMING_EXTRA=-dpi 96 -xkblayout be
cd /d "C:\Program Files\Xming"
start Xming :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -wgl -nolisten inet6 %XMING_EXTRA%
REM Don't start Plink.exe here because it leaves an opened window. Let's try with a VBS script.
- And file plink.vbs:
set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run """C:\Program Files\Xming\plink.exe"" -ssh -2 -X -x11forloc localhost:0 peetersm@vm /usr/bin/terminator", 0
set WshShell = Nothing
Accelerated OpenGL not detected
According to XMing Manual, glxinfo
must return the hardware of the server, and not Mesa:
glxinfo | egrep "OpenGL (version|vendor)"
# OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
# OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6 <-- BAD. SW emulation
glxinfo | egrep "OpenGL (version|vendor)"
# OpenGL vendor string: Intel
# OpenGL version string: 1.4 (4.0.0 - Build 9.18.10.3204) <-- OK, hw detected
To get HW acceleration:
- On Client, export DISPLAY and launch program directly. This may require removing access control on host:
# On server:
Xming :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -wgl
xhost +
# On client:
export DISPLAY=...
glxinfo
# ... should report HW card
- When connecting through SSH, add the following line to /etc/profile
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
- As a result, we don't need to remove access control on host:
# On server:
Xming :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -wgl
plink -ssh -2 -X -x11forloc localhost:0 USER@CLIENT /usr/bin/terminator
# On client:
glxinfo
# ... should report HW card
Performance
We don't get any perforamnce gain in terminator using WGL apparently:
yes | dd count=10k > yes.txt
# With WGL:
time cat yes.txt
# real 0m2.075s
# sys 0m0.927s
# Without WGL:
time cat yes.txt
# real 0m1.956s 1.877s 2.301s 2.726s 2.403s
# sys 0m0.865s 0.848s 0.983s 1.054s 1.031s