Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 15:54:00 GMT 2016


On 10/08/2016 16:46, Franz Fehringer wrote:
> Dear Cygwin community,
>
> Is it possible to launch Ubuntu on Windows X11 clients agianst the
> Cygwin X11 server?
> A first shot was not a success:
> franz@FEHRINGER:~$ sudo xdpyinfo -display :0
> xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0".
> but on the other hand there are already success stories for U on W
> against Xming.
> I issued xhost + on the Cygwin side and my account is an Administrator one.
> Any hints about this?
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Franz
>


http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-xserver-nolisten-tcp-default

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