Right click on the Xming icon and select properties. Xming takes the DPI config as part of its command line parameters. I found anything in the range of 108-112 DPI to be appropriate.

We can increase this value to have bigger font sizes (not only fonts, everything scales proportionately). But once I switched back to Linux desktop, the fonts were too big.

My initial solution was to increase the font sizes of the few applications (gvim, gnome-terminal) I typically used. Now by default the fonts displayed by default X server on Linux is much more readable than the tiny size displayed by Xming. On the rare occasion of having to use Windows to ssh to a Linux server, my preferred X server is Xming. Most of the time I use Linux on my desktop and use the default X server for remote X clients. Also I put a shortcut to Cygwin X Server in my Startup folder so that it is automatically started whenever my PC boots. I am using Cygwin X Server for over a year now and it has never failed me. Even if you don’t use any of the other Cygwin stuff, it is worth it just for the X server. It is after all meant to provide a Unix style native environment in Windows. Cygwin has so many packages, that it is easier to search for what you want.Ĭygwin installs a whole bunch of stuff (standard Unixy stuff). You can do it manually by selecting the Xinit package from the X11 section as shown. Cygwin/X which has the X server is not selected for installation by default. It is an installer stub and will download additional stuff from the internet based on the components selected for installation. Cygwin comes with an X server among many other things. It has to be manually killed from the task manager.įinally, I found an alternative that is as capable as Xming but doesn’t block the clipboard from time to time. Even after quitting Xming, a residual process would still be running which continues to block the clipboard.

Quitting Xming doesn’t get the clipboard functionality back. The bug blocks the clipboard not only for X applications but also for native Windows applications. Sometime Xming interferes with the clipboard, so that cut/copy/paste no longer works. I started looking out for other X servers for Windows because of a particularly irritating bug of Xming. I used to use Xming for an X server for my Windows 7 PC.

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