Cygwin/X can do a lot, including giving you a nice xterm for your Windows-to-linux ssh sessions.
But you’d think it would be easier…
- Install cygwin, including…
Shells: bash (included by default) X11: xorg-x11-xwin: Cygwin/X X server Net: openssh: The OpenSSH server and client programs - Add [C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin] to your Windows PATH env variable
- Make some batch files, one for each machine to which you want to connect. Here’s an example:
@echo off SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/X11R6/bin SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH% SET XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults SET XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt SET XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB SET XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale c: cd C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin %RUN% xterm -e 'ssh user@machine' - Run the X server (via startxwin.sh or whatever)
- Call the batch files to connect!
You can also set up shortcuts for ssh via bash in the standard Windows console, or in an rxvt terminal, if you install that.
Or just use putty. :>
