Remote open X application

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Dec 18 17:13:00 GMT 2003


Welson,

Welson Sun wrote:

> Here is the result:
> 1. Start Cygwin/X
> DISPLAY = 127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> 2. ssh -X Remote Host
> DISPLAY = My router's external address

So, how do you launch apps from the remote host then?  Are you setting 
the DISPLAY variable on the remote host to point back to the Windows host?

By the way, do you do IRC?  I am in irc.freenode.net/#cygwinx.  It would 
be easier to help you there.

Harold



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