Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Reckoner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm starting my xserver using
>
>  C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow
>-clipboard -silent-dup-error
>
>and then I do:
>
>  C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh
>
>when I do
>
>  % ssh -Y host@remote.edu
>
>I can successfully open remote x-windows.
>
>However,
>
>If I use mintty 0.91 instead of rxvt as shown below:
>
>  C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh
>
>when I do
>
>  % ssh -Y host@remote.edu
>
>I *cannot* successfully open remote x-windows.
>
>Note that changing the shell from zsh to bash doesn't help at all.
>
>Any advice appreciated.
>
>The appropriate log files are attached.

According to your cygcheck output, you don't have a DISPLAY environment
variable set.  Does performing an "export DISPLAY=:0" before using ssh
help?

cgf

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