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Problem opening remote X applications
- From: Chris Carlson <cwcarlsonc at cox dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:51:59 -0800
- Subject: Problem opening remote X applications
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I just downloaded Cygwin 64-bit for the first time. I've been using
Cygwin 32-bit for years.
I'm running on Windows 7, and my Cygwin 32-bit has been working
reasonably well for a long time. My only issue with it was a problem it
had with my Caps Lock key. For whatever reason, focus would switch
windows whenever I pressed the Caps Lock key. The caps would lock, but
focus would change.
I finally decided to download the latest and greatest to see if it has
been fixed. It appears that it is no longer an issue. Now I have a new
problem.
I usually "ssh -X <remote>" to a remote Linux machine. I can then read
mail (thunderbird), edit documents (LibreOffice 3.x), run Chrome, and
edit programs (Emacs). I'll have half a dozen windows open through the
X tunnel provided by ssh. Works well and lasts for hours.
After upgrading to Cygwin 64-bit (this last weekend), everything *seems*
to be okay for a while. After about 20 minutes, though, I can no longer
open windows remotely. Even though I have thunderbird currently open,
when I try to run Chrome, I get "(google-chrome:20006): Gtk-WARNING **:
cannot open display: localhost:10.0". If I try to open xclock from the
command line, I get:
xclock
Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
Does anybody know what happened? Why has the tunnel disappeared? It
hasn't actually disappeared because I'm still running thunderbird
through it.
Thanks for any assistance on this.
Chris
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