John Ormerod wrote: you have to give permissions for remotes hosts to open apps on your server.
in a cygwin bash prompt enter $ xhost + note that this will give 'everyone' permissions to open a window on your server. you could do $ xhost ip-addr-of-machine-you-want-to-allow-to-open-apps or man xhost to see more info. It should not take more than a few seconds to open a cygwin bash prompt. If i dbl-click on cygwin-bat, it takes about 3 secs for a bash prompt window to be ready for use. 2+ghz intel, with 1GB ram. same with my home machine 2500XP athlon with 512MB ram. ( i normally open a bash session in rxvt ( can't stand cmd.exe ), and it also takes ~3 secs to be ready ) My suggestion is this. make sure no cygwin processes are running ( ps -ef ) return to www.cygwin.com, re-run setup for cygwin, selecting to re-install all of the non-X applications that you have installed. When that has completed, re-run setup again, selecting to re-install all of the X applications that you have installed. go ahead and reboot. ( shouldn't be necessary, but lets do so anyway) dbl-click on c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat Make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH. $ echo $PATH ( if not in there, export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin)( you can add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile if needed) Make sure the display is set correctly: $ env |grep DISPLAY ( what does this show ) Mine: $ env |grep DISP DISPLAY=:0 run $ startxwin.sh & open another bash shell via cygwin.bat run $ xterm reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/