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Re: X windows display problem
- From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, meredith at www dot honeybeerobotics dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:07:13 -0400
- Subject: Re: X windows display problem
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
What is the value of the DISPLAY environment variable on the remote machine
after running ssh?
It should have a value of "<remotehostname>:10.0", or something similar.
If it's empty, or the value looks like "<remotehostname>:0.0",
"<localhostname:0.0", or simply ":0", then there is a problem with the X
forwarding.
Note that the ssh daemon on the remote machine has to be explicitly told to
enable X forwarding. This might be to blame.
I've also seen the existance of the .Xauthority file in the home directory
on the local Cygwin host cause problems.
From: "Meredith Finkelstein" <meredith@www.honeybeerobotics.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: "cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: X windows display problem
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:41:41 -0400
Hi
I have found some related posts in the archives, but nothing that seems to
solve my problem, which is:
I start startxwin.sh from my client (which runs windows2000) (I have tried
both cygwin shell and cmd)
then i open up an ssh connection (ssh -X -l username hostname) to my host
computer which is running red hat 7.3. The sshd config file has
X11Forwarding turned on
when i try to open xterm, xeyes, anything - i get the following error:
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
this happens no matter which window i am sshing from - cmd, cygwin,
xwindows.
and /tmp/XWin.log displays no error messages
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Meredith
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