Use PuTTY and XMing to see Linux graphics via SSH on your Windows computer
Stephen Turner · 2009
Do you use SSH to connect to a remote Linux machine from your local Windows computer? Ever needed to run a program on that Linux machine that displays graphical output, or uses a GUI? I was in this position last week trying to make figures using ggplot2 in R of results from an analysis of GWAS data which required using a 64-bit Linux machine with more RAM than my 32-bit windows machine can see.