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Originally Posted by Black187
Now I wanna know, how can I start KDE (startx) over Putty, I tries with 'startx' but no luck.
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I've always had a bad experience with starting desktop environments over SSH X forwarding. Because all the desktop environment is forwarded to your local X server, it may conflict with the desktop environment or window manager already running locally. (Especially the time when I was using KDE in Linux and I SSH'ed to another computer and ran 'startkde'; didn't turn out so well

). Another way to get a remote "desktop" that is probably more efficient and flexible is VNC. Do you know about it?
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Originally Posted by Gibsonist
I never heard that -Y is the option for X-forwarding.
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For all the versions of OpenSSH beginning with 3.8 (that means all recent Linux systems within the last two years or so, including current packages in Cygwin), the -X option was changed to be untrusted forwarding, so that some X apps no longer work. The -Y option preserves the original (trusted) -X forwarding functionality. (see
this).
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Originally Posted by Poetics
iirc, puTTY is a text-only tunneler. No x-windows.
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No, Putty does has an option to forward X (Connection -> SSH -> X11 -> Enable X11 Forwarding), like all standard SSH clients; but you still need an X server for it to forward it to. The free X servers for Windows are mainly
Cygwin/X, the X server in Cygwin, and
Xming, essentially the same thing but without needing Cygwin.