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The first time you run Xming, the windows firewall may ask if you want to keep blocking it. Select "Unblock" or "Allow Access. When the Xming server is running, you should see an X down on the status line by the clock. You might have to click on the little up arrow to get additional icons to see it. When it first starts, it will come up with a configuration screen. Type the machine name that you want to connect to in the 'Host Name' Box. For example, cat4.

Make sure the connection type is set to SSH. In the configuration options on the left, click on the plus sign next to SSH. Then select X11 and make sure the "Enable X11 Forwarding box is checked. There are a bunch of those utilities that close applications when you click the the red close button.

In overall, to answer your question about how it hits system efficiency, memory and battery : OS X handles it properly and does as much as possible to optimize efficiency, unless the Application itself is written poorly. OS X internally has a lot of optimisations like App Nap which help to keep background apps' effect on system resources to a minimum :.

Features such as Compressed Memory and App Nap keep your Mac running fast, and save power when many apps are open. There's no real easy answers to this. It's going to depend on such things as how much memory your system has, what the apps are, how well are they written etc. For example, if you have a small amount of memory and checking Activity Monitor shows little memory available, or a lot of swap space being used. Then you probably want to ensure apps are quit to make more memory available.

Adding to the confusing around this is the fact that even though you quit an app, OS X doesn't remove it from memory until it needs the space for something else. This is why quitting and reopening an app is faster than the first time you started it. If the app is still in memory, OS X only has to start it again. Of course, in a memory tight situation, OS X automatically removes apps from memory which have been quit so that the memory can be available for something else.

Apps which you have closed all windows for, but not quit, can effect the system. It depends on what they do. So memory, CPU, battery can all be consumed. Again Activity Monitor is your friend in determining whether any of your apps are causing problems.

Generally speaking, if you have enough memory, and your apps are well behaved in terms of sucking on your battery, then whether you quit or close is not going to matter. Luckily, OS X apps are generally quite well behaved. In general it is fine to just close the windows.

If you are a software developer or otherwise have very special needs, you might need to quite the applications explicitly.

However, in general - just close the windows. The other answers to your question does not seem to take into account that the mechanism regards closing windows vs. From that version and on, OS X will automatically quit non-used applications for you. And the question was how to shut "X server" down? I have no gdm or lightdm installed, I have nothing to do with them.

How can we stop it? Tele Just made an edit — Emmanuel. Yes I know about killall, but isn't there something more delicate, regular and official. I don't like brutality. Do we have to wipe the process out like a frozen one? Reto Reto 31 1 1 bronze badge. This has nothing to do with halting the Xserver. Tcll Tcll 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Google is picking up on wrong answers from people not reading the Q properly. RichieHH the X server can be disabled through lightdm, which used to be gdm back then as the original question noted , and using the display manager lightdm, gdm, lxdm, etc.

There is a difference between exiting the display manager which your reply does and exiting theX server. Dont confuse X Server with Display Manager, or disable for exit. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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