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Re: display remote X client on cygwin machine's display?
- From: Andrew Clarke <spam at clarke dot ca>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:30:49 -0700
- Subject: Re: display remote X client on cygwin machine's display?
- Organization: clarke.ca inc.
- References: <200309010345.h813jTGN000512@eHa.no-ip.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Check out the "Running remote programs locally" thread where I asked
this question and it was answered very thoroughly.
Short answer:
1. Run xwin.exe. I like to run xwin.exe -multiwindow personally but
that's up to you.
2. From your shell prompt, ensure that your DISPLAY environment variable
is set to localhost:0.0, 127.0.0.1:0, or whatever flavour of that you
prefer.
3. ssh -X yourlinuxcomputer
4. go crazy with all your favourite X-based apps ;-)
- Andrew.
cyggie@eHa.no-ip.org wrote:
i have cygwin installed on my win2k box, and KDE-cygwin too, which work fine. When I ssh to my favorite linux-based server and run gnucash, I get "Gtk-WARNING" **: cannot open display:". Then I run KDE-cygwin and ssh to the same server from a Konsole, but I get the same error when I run gnucash. Yet this works when ssh'ing from my linux-based laptop, which runs KDE. Is there a way with cygwin to display X clients I launch on a remote machine on the local display?
thank you,
cyggie