It takes a minute or so to run through the install. Grab the current Xming, or Xming-mesa, if you have an older client that might need the Mesa renderer instead of OpenGL, and run the setup wizard. You probably want to stick to the stable releases unless there’s a feature in the recent development releases that you can’t live without. Head to the Xming project page and find the releases section. It also has the advantage of more active development - Cygwin/X hasn’t been updated since 2004, according to its homepage. If all you want is an X Window Server - and not a complete Unix-type environment - Xming is a better choice than Cygwin/X. Xming is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), and comes packaged as Windows executables with easy-to-use installers.

Xming is a port of X Window System to Microsoft Windows that’s free and easy to use. If you find yourself working on Windows but wanting to use Linux apps at the same time, Xming can do the job.

One of the not-so-nice things about Microsoft Windows is the complete lack of native support for displaying X applications. One of the nice things about the X Window System is its ability to display X apps running remotely on a local machine.

Xming fonts