X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:47:14 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jesse cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSHD fails to display gui, no error message In-Reply-To: <43995887.5060505@ucsd.edu> Message-ID: References: <43995887.5060505@ucsd.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Jesse wrote: > I've had Cygwin's ssh daemon (sshd) working for some time now on my > windows box. I have turned x11 forwarding on and I can test it by > connecting to the machine remotely and running some X applications like > xeyes and xclock. They work just fine. > [snip] > I made sure my program runs locally without any x11 and it does. > I tested out my application on someone else's ssh server and you can run > it remotely without any problems. > [snip] > Anyone have any ideas why simple X applications work fine, but my java > gui's don't work over x11? Because java under Windows is not an X application. You can't forward windows native applications over ssh (unless you use something like VNC). At a guess, the "someone else's" server you mention above is a Linux box (which does have an X implementation of Java GUI code). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/