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DrJeckyl wrote:
> I've instlled cygwin on two laptops and it works fine, on another laptop it
> wont launch xterm
> a. run starwin.bat
> b. login to server (ssh -l <userID><servername>
> c. xterm
> It wont launch the xterm window, can anybody give me some ideas? I really
> need some help
> Thanks 

First, make sure the X server is running on your local machine.  Second,
use 'ssh -Y -l <userID> <servername>'.  That should work.

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