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From: David Peterson <David.Peterson@mail.idrive.com>
To: "'Fabrice Gautier'" <gautier@email.enst.fr>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Cygwin ssh client and X11 forwarding
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:55:53 -0800
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I had to export DISPLAY as localhost:0 before I could get it to work with
Xwin32.

Exporting DISPLAY as just :0 wan't enough.

-dave.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fabrice Gautier [mailto:gautier@email.enst.fr]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:59 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Cygwin ssh client and X11 forwarding


Hi,

Does the cygwin ssh client suport X11 forwarding?

Man page say yes (using "ssh -X"). I'm using a native Windows X-server,
not XFree. I've tried to set and export the DISPLAY variable but when
i'm logged in the display variable is not set (when i login to the same
machine using a linux host the DISPLAY variable is set.

Thanks
-- 
Fabrice Gautier <gautier@email.enstfr>


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