Re: Problem with running application over SSH tunnel?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>]

Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a bit of a strange problem, maybe somebody can help me out...
>
> I am running the latest updated cygwin on my windows XP SP2 desktop
> machine. I'm ssh'ing (ssh -X or ssh -Y) into our AIX 5.1 box. I'm trying to
> run the eclipse IDE. The application launches fine, but it does not seem to
> accept any input from me (mouse clicks and key presses seem to do nothing).
> The strange thing is that I'm able to run other applications over the
> tunnel just fine.
>
> I am pretty sure it's a cygwin X server problem because I had another guy
> in the office with a linux box do the exact same thing as me, and he is
> able to launch the application just fine.
>
> Any ideas?


Try to ssh to Linux instead? ;-)  I did this from my Cygwin (latest) to
my Fedora Core 4 (pretty close to latest).  It worked just fine for me.
If it's a Cygwin-X problem, it's a local one.

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