How display graphic by cygwin

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Sat Jun 28 12:53:00 GMT 2003


Peng Yu wrote:

>     I just installed the minimum set of cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 on a
> Window XP. I can startx at the localhost(my Window XP machine).
>     Then I sshed to a remote Linux host and ran acroread. "Error: Can't not
> open display:" was displayed. Could somebody help me to fix this problem.

You need to include the "-X" argument to ssh to forward X11 from the
remote host to your local machine.

Brian

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