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Re: xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
Yes I've tried all combinitions of these. We have a proprietary version of
xdisplay (winpro) which works... Also, as I said, it used to work until I
upgraded in November or so. (I upgraded the Linux box at the same time
though, so who knows where the problem lies).
Chris Bruner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Smith" <jay@JaySmith.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> Could it be related to mixing (as you showed in your post)
> DISPLAY=
> and
> Export DISPLAY
> ???
>
>
> The example shows:
>
> $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> $ export DISPLAY
> $ ssh -X remotehost
>
> or
>
> $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X remotehost
>
> which is different from your original post.
>
> May you tried all the combinations already?
>
> Jay
>
> cryst said the following on 12/09/2003 01:06 PM:
> > Thanks, but I've been there and it didn't help. (Hence this list).
> >
> > Any idea on how to diagnose this?
> >
> > Chris Bruner
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alexander Gottwald" <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
> > To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> >
> >
> >
> >>On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, cryst wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>chris@gecko's password:
> >>>Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
> >
> > forwarding.
> >
> >>>Last login: Tue Dec 9 12:29:56 2003 from 192.168.1.23
> >>>chris@gecko chris $ xterm
> >>>xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> >>>chris@gecko chris $
> >>>
> >>>and the like. This used to work. Does anyone have any idea what is
> >
> > going
> >
> >>>wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding
> >
> >>bye
> >>ago
> >>--
> >> Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
> >> http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
>
>