Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try
ssh -v -l <user> <system> <x app> to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check the sshd_config file on the remote machine (if you have permission; otherwise, ask the admin.) I think Patrick Nelson wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > In ssh you get x forwarding. But, I can't seem to get it working. A > command like: > > ssh -l <user> <system> <x app> > > always responds with something like: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Is there some configuration that needs to take place in cygwin first? Yes I > can log in by dropping the <x app> part and yes the <x app> is available. > Tried running the above from a terminal that displayed after doing a > "startx" too... same result. So I have to figure I just don't have > something setup correctly. > --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Distributed Systems Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
