I'm stumped - I have tried googling cygwin.com for references to this problem
and I am sure it has been discussed there before but I haven't hit on the
correct keywords yet.
I have Cygwin and X installed and from a bash prompt I can:
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$ X -clipboard
[1] 3632
snip all the startup stuff
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$ DISPLAY=:0.0;export DISPLAY
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$ twm
[2] 2484
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$ winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winClipboardProc - Hello
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the
display.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
I will now have a nice X Desktop and can start additional additional programs
and connections like:
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$ xterm -bg blue -fg white
I will get an xterm on my Xdesktop for this computer. I can also use ssh to
connect to a VMware linux machine on this same machine or others as in :
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$ ssh -X -f -l briank atl-lt-5783-lnx xterm -fg grey -bg midnightblue -cr red
or
$ ssh -X -f -l briank softsrc-vm-lnx xterm -fg grey -bg midnightblue -cr red
I will get xterm sessions on my Xdesktop connected to either of these 2 linux
machines but if I try to connect to my current workstation or another windows
machine (either of which is running sshd as a service) the connection will
fail:
$ ssh -X -f -l briank atl-lt-5783 xterm -fg grey -bg midnightblue -cr red
or
$ ssh -X -f -l briank softsrc-vm xterm -fg grey -bg midnightblue -cr red
ssh will actually ask for the password but then return to a command prompt. If
I instead do a :
$ ssh -X -l BrianK atl-lt-5783
or
$ ssh -X -l BrianK softsrc-vm
You have to remove the -f option since I am not specifying a program to run
name and I will get a bash session on these two machines but if I then try to
run xterm I will get an unable to open display error:
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$ ssh -X -l BrianK atl-lt-5783
Enter passphrase for key '/home/BrianK/.ssh/id_rsa':
Last login: Wed Nov 8 12:23:56 2006 from atl-lt-5783.fultonpaper.com
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
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$ echo $DISPLAY
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$ xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
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$
granted in this case I am connecting to the same machine but even when I try
this same scenario against the softsrc-vm machine I get the same result.
Shouldn't the DISPLAY have been set by ssh. I did notice my CYGWIN= is env is
set to 'ntsec' only and I seem to recall something about it should be set for
'ntsec tty'.
Can someone point me to what I am missing here. Like I say the Windows to
Linux works great - just having trouble with the to Windows (either Windows to
Windows or Linux to Windows) because I also tried from Linux to one of these
Windows systems and cannot connect there either.
As a side note out of curiosity - why do I sometimes get these lines during twm
startup:
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
But then sometimes I do not get the above but instead one indicating success.
Thanks for any and all insights and suggestions.
bk
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