Problem with running application over SSH tunnel?

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Mar 2 16:37:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Michael J. Wheeler wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a bit of a strange problem, maybe somebody can help me out...
>
> I am running the latest updated cygwin on my windows XP SP2 desktop
> machine. I'm ssh'ing (ssh -X or ssh -Y) into our AIX 5.1 box. I'm trying
> to run the eclipse IDE. The application launches fine, but it does not
> seem to accept any input from me (mouse clicks and key presses seem to
> do nothing). The strange thing is that I'm able to run other
> applications over the tunnel just fine.
>
> I am pretty sure it's a cygwin X server problem because I had another
> guy in the office with a linux box do the exact same thing as me, and he
> is able to launch the application just fine.
>
> Any ideas?

Does <http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#numlock-modifier>
help?
	Igor
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