Problem opening remote X applications
Chris Carlson
cwcarlsonc@cox.net
Sat Jan 4 04:39:00 GMT 2014
Wow! Thanks for the quick response.
That was easy.
Chris
On 1/3/2014 10:23 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 03/01/2014 04:51, Chris Carlson wrote:
>> I just downloaded Cygwin 64-bit for the first time. I've been using Cygwin
>> 32-bit for years.
> [...]
>> I usually "ssh -X <remote>" to a remote Linux machine. I can then read mail
>> (thunderbird), edit documents (LibreOffice 3.x), run Chrome, and edit programs
>> (Emacs). I'll have half a dozen windows open through the X tunnel provided by
>> ssh. Works well and lasts for hours.
>>
>> After upgrading to Cygwin 64-bit (this last weekend), everything *seems* to be
>> okay for a while. After about 20 minutes, though, I can no longer open
>> windows remotely. Even though I have thunderbird currently open, when I try
>> to run Chrome, I get "(google-chrome:20006): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
>> display: localhost:10.0". If I try to open xclock from the command line, I get:
>>
>> xclock
>> Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
>>
>> Does anybody know what happened? Why has the tunnel disappeared? It hasn't
>> actually disappeared because I'm still running thunderbird through it.
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-twenty-minute-timeout
>
> Use 'ssh -Y'
>
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