Logging into linux machines from Windows can be done in various ways,
such as using ssh via PuTTY. In alternative is to use Cygwin, which not
only gives you a fairly complete Linux emulation on your windows box,
but also makes it easy to use X-forwarding, and thus use remote
GUI-based applications.
Step 1) Install Cygwin. The installer will give you a choice of
packages to install. Make sure you install the x11 packages
Step 2) Start the x server by running [cygwin
installation]\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
Step 3) From the resulting xterm window, log into the remote machine
with ssh -X (remote machine name)
Any remotely started GUI apps should now magically appear on your
Windows box.
If you get an error of the form
warning, error event received:
X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
Atom id in failed request: 0x1b3
Serial number of failed request: 944
Current serial number in output stream: 946
when you try to start the GUI app, try using -Y instead of -X.
