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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:53:54+00:00

In the spirit of being helpful, this is a problem I had and solved,

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In the spirit of being helpful, this is a problem I had and solved, so I will answer the question here.

Problem

I have:

An application that has to be installed on on Redhat or SuSE enterprise.

It has huge system requirements and requires OpenGL.

It is part of a suite of tools that need to operate together on one machine.

This application is used for a time intensive task in terms of man hours.

I don’t want to sit in the server room working on this application.

So, the question came up… how do I run this application from a remote windows machine?

I’ll outline my solution. Feel free to comment on alternatives. This solution should work for simpler environments as well. My case is somewhat extreme.

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  1. Solution

    I installed two pieces of software:

    PuTTY

    XMing-mesa The mesa part is important.

    PuTTY configuration

    Connection->Seconds Between Keepalives: 30 Connection->Enable TCP Keepalives: Yes  Connection->SSH->X11->Enable X11 forwarding: Yes Connection->SSH->X11->X display location: localhost:0:0

    Lauching

    Run Xming which will put simply start a process and put an icon in your system tray. Launch putty, pointing to your linux box, with the above configuration. Run program

    Hopefully, Success!

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