I have Windows 7 on my computer, but needed to run a git gui tool for our project. Searching on Google I found several, but they all were software for Linux. We have plenty of Linux Redhat servers, but no one running X window.
I installed then a Xming X server (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) on my Windows 7 computer, and by configuring Putty (also a Windows program) and the sshd_config on the Linux server I could run git-cola and other Linux software in my Windows enviroment:
Putty configuration:
Connection -> SSH -> X11:
Enable X11 forwarding = true
X display location: location:0.0
Linux Redhat server configuration:
X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes
Also I noticed if I changed to another user in Putty (SSH) with:
sudo su –
then I wouldn’t be able to forward any X program. So, just after loggin in to the server in Putty with SSH, I had to start the program right away:
References:
- http://www.straightrunning.com/xmingnotes/trouble.php
- http://www.geo.mtu.edu/geoschem/docs/putty_install.html
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html