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I've been tasked with getting a GUI Debugger working for project being developed for Ubuntu 16.04 server in C++ 11.0 with BOOST.

I've got the app building and running on 'headless' Ubuntu 16.04 servers. My boss is a windows user and wants me to set the build so that he can connect via his windows computer, and use Visual Studio Code on the server to debug the program. I think he put it like this: "just setup X11 or some XWindows server so my box can code/debug the app."

I've gotten an x11 service up and running, and loaded up firefox in this environment, but it was painfully slow. Basically followed:

http://dasunhegoda.com/gui-ubuntu-server-x11-forwarding/679/.

Is this possible? I desperately need suggestions, and no he doesn't want to use an Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop like I'm doing.

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  • It's a bit of a game of chinese whispers here, but it sounds like what your boss has in mind is something like PuTTY + xming, or MobaXterm (a Windows SSH client with a built-in X server). Mar 30, 2018 at 0:34
  • Mobaxterm did the trick. Now I have to see if I can get it all working on a Docker container.....
    – Quadrivium
    Mar 31, 2018 at 21:20

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thank you @steeldriver, MobaXTerm worked beautifully. It's working now, but took a bit to get Visual Studio Code for linux up and working! Once I got all the dependancies all worked out it ran pretty well on my iMac. Can't say the same for my Windows computer, it was still a little glitchy in the window update department, but worked like I needed anyway.

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