RE: Looking for help

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Yet another revision:

> - start bash shell
> - startx

- export DISPLAY=:0.0  # otherwise ssh won't start X forwarding

> - ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh -Y...)

FWIW, this can also be "ssh -X username@remote.machine"...

> - on remote machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like:
> -  startkde

HTH,
	Igor
P.S. Oh, and <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Listopad, Steve wrote:

> revision.
>
> - start bash shell
> - startx
> - ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh -Y...)
> - on remote machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like:
> -  startkde
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@XXXXXX.XXX On Behalf Of Listopad, Steve
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:51 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@XXXXXX.XXX'
> Subject: RE: Looking for help
>
> on cygwin machine, try:
>
> - start bash shell
> - ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh
> -Y...)
> - on remote machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like:
> -  startkde
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@XXXXXX.XXX On Behalf Of Ronald Clark
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:23 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@XXXXXX.XXX
> Subject: Looking for help
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for a doc that will hopefully explain how to setup Cygwin
> to allow me to SSH to a system and run startx and have the X Window
> environment be routed through the tunnel. Is there such a document?
>
> Right now, I have Cygwin loaded with SSH and when I log into my remote
> system and type SSH, I see the X server start on the remote machine, and
> no X Windows in my Cygwin session. I assume this is a common issue and
> any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ron Clark

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