Re: Mississippi -> Miiippi

["Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>]

By the way, you're using ssh all wrong.  What you should really be doing is:

1) Invoke startxwin.sh
2) In the local xterm, verify that the value of DISPLAY is 127.0.0.1:0 (and 
set it to that if it is not)
3) ssh to the remote box using the "-X" flag to enable X-forwarding.
4) Once connected to the remote host, verify that the value of DISPLAY is 
something like remotehost:8.
5) Run your remote X-clients normally.

> From: "Dai Itasaka" <ditasaka@silverbacksystems.com>
> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Subject: Mississippi -> Miiippi
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:56:06 -0700
>
> Hello list,
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> - Opened several tcsh windows (as separate MS Window apps)
> - Started X by invoking "startxwin.sh" which gave me one big root window
>   and one xterm window
> - In this xterm window, I did:
>     > xhost 10.0.1.2
>     > ssh myname@10.0.1.2
>     (now I'm logged in)
>     > setenv DISPLAY 10.0.1.1:0
>     (10.0.1.1 is the Windows PC with cygwin running, 10.0.1.2 is a Linux 
> box)
>     > twm &
>     (now the desktop is managed by twm)
> - Opened a few more xterm windows from twm and already opened xterm
> - Went back to one of the tcsh window and did:
>     > setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
>     > xterm
>
> This opened up one xterm window in the X desktop with "bash-2.05b" prompt.
> In this xterm window, I couldn't type the letter 's'. Not only I couldn't
> type, but I was unable to yank and copy a string with 's'. For example,
> I yanked a string "tcsh" in another xterm window and pasted it in this
> troubled xterm window, it displayed "tch". For another example, I yanked
> the word "Mississippi" from /usr/share/dict/words and pasted it and got
> "Miiippi". I had no such problem in any other xterm windows but this.
>
> What was happening?
>
> >uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myname 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
> Cygwin

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