Re: display remote X client on cygwin machine's display?

[cyggie at eHa dot no-ip dot org]

thanks andrew, that worked great, even if i don't quite understand it. i do get "warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding." when I ssh -X over to the linux box, but X clients display on localhost no problem. This all seems fairly simple, so what doc did I fail to read? I swear i went through the cygwin docs, yet still came up clueless. I guess i was used to remote X clients displaying on localhost when running my linux laptop, but i also guess i never understood how that worked either.

     yours,
     cyggie stardust

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   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?
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   >thank you,
   >cyggie
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