Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:31:28 -0600 (CST) From: Satish Balay To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GUI apps through ssh In-Reply-To: <20050228143816.GI3184@mikee.ath.cx> Message-ID: References: <20050228143816.GI3184@mikee.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, artem_ave might have said: > > > Hello, > > > > I have Win 2000 machine running Cygwin (with X Server) and i'm trying to > > launch GUI apps from remote Solaris system via ssh (with -X option). > > Whatever DISPLAY I set in my ssh session it says: > > ... Xt error: Can't open display: ... > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Do you have the local X server running? > > start bash (double-click on the cygwin icon) > start x ($ startx) > make the ssh connection (ssh -X HOST) > try something graphic ($ xterm) Also - if invoking ssh from a regular bash-cmd [not xterm] - make sure your display variable is properly set. i.e setenv DISPLAY :0.0 ssh -Y remotemachine xterm Satish -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/