How to display a Image on a remote linux machine through ssh

Question

I have two computers, one running windows(WIN7) and the other running linux(SUSe). I'm wondering if there is a way to ssh(Putty) into the linux machine and run a command to have a image display on the linux machine (The image would be stored locally on the linux machine). I know it won't necessarily be just one command that accomplishes something like this but any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Solution

It's nothing harder than connecting to the Linux machine, setting DISPLAY variable to connect to the running X server and running an image viewer. Example:

   $ export DISPLAY=:0
   $ ristretto <IMAGE>

This assumes that USER has a right to connect to the X server instance running on LINUX machine. If he doesn't, X server owner must use xhost command to allow other clients to connect. There are many image viewers for Linux - I used ristretto, feh, xv - pick the one you like the best.