I did attempt to use the Cygwin version of Putty but encountered several errors. I ended adding a post-install script that makes the following changes in /bin/startxwin and /bin/startx
defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -listen tcp"' enable_xauth=0 This seems to allow functionality with our external (to Cygwin) version of Putty however I am still testing. -Chris On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 15/09/2015 16:56, Chris Louden wrote: >> >> Following up on this post: >> >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2015-02/msg00075.html >> >> Is there any news regarding the getting "listen tcp" issue with xauth >> resolved. The workaround mentioned works but isn't ideal in the >> environment I have. > > > No progress, but a couple more suggestions: > > cygwin now has an X11 PuTTY client package. I haven't tested that, but I > guess that should be able to find the X display and authority file without > any special configuration. > > Alternatively, you could patch xinit to use a deterministic name for the > authority file e.g. ~/.serverauth.hostname.display rather than > ~/.serverauth.pid. > > (If you write such a patch, please submit it, as that would probably be > acceptable in our package and maybe upstream. Using just the pid seems > wrong, as there potentially could be collisions in a shared home directory) > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
