Problem with Cygwin/X from remote Linux

[Chris Carlson]

Hello, Jon.

The version of Fedora I'm running is:
Linux rolf 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I thought the two logs that you requested were a bit large for this 
e-mail, so I put them on my web site.  You can access them as:
http://beachware.org/Cygwin/glxinfo.cygwin
http://beachware.org/Cygwin/X.log

Believe it or not, I just so happen to have an XWin.0.log from my old, 
old, old version of Cygwin.  It was:

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.15.1.0
OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 grover 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601](Win64)
Package: version 1.15.1-2 built 2014-05-06

XWin was started with the following command line:

X :0 -multiwindow

Let me know if there's anything else I can provide.

Chris Carlson



On 10/2/2014 5:05 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 02/10/2014 04:53, Chris Carlson wrote:
>> I've been using Cygwin on a Windows 7 laptop for a few years as an X
>> server from my Fedora Linux system.  I "ssh -X" to my Linux system and
>> run various X programs (thunderbird, chrome, nautilus, etc.) with very
>> few issues.
>>
> [...]
>>
>>      Welcome to the XWin X Server
>>      Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>>      Release: 1.16.1.0
>>      OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 grover 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64
>>      OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (Win64)
>>      Package: version 1.16.1-1 built 2014-09-29
>>
>>      XWin was started with the following command line:
>>
>>      X :0 -multiwindow
>>
>> I discovered there are no visuals available to remote X connections that
>> support OpenGL double buffering.  There used to be, but no longer.
>> There are visuals available to direct connections, but not for remote.
>
> Thanks for reporting this problem.  Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it.
>
> Please can you attach the output of 'X -multiwindow -logverbose 3', so 
> I can see what visuals the server thinks should be available, and the 
> output of running 'glxinfo' on your remote system.
>
> Can you give the version of Fedora you are using, and the version of 
> the libGL package you have?
>
>> I tried looking through the FAQ for answers, but I didn't see anything.
>> Is this something that has intentionally changed?  Where would I find it
>> if it is (for future reference so I don't bug you)?
>
> No, this is not intentional.
>
> I guess this is an unintended consequence of a change.  It would be 
> useful in tracking down that change if you could identify the last X 
> server release which worked correctly.
>
> The release announce mails are a hopefully accurate summary of 
> intended changes (e.g [1])
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-09/msg00004.html
>


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