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Re: Problem opening remote X applications
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cwcarlsonc at cox dot net
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:23:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: Problem opening remote X applications
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On 03/01/2014 04:51, Chris Carlson wrote:
> I just downloaded Cygwin 64-bit for the first time. I've been using Cygwin
> 32-bit for years.
[...]
> 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.
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-twenty-minute-timeout
Use 'ssh -Y'
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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