on cygwin machine, try:
- start bash shell
- ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh
-Y...)
- on remote machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like:
- startkde
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machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like:
- startkde
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on cygwin machine, try:
- start bash shell
- ssh -X -l
- export DISPLAY=:0.0 # otherwise ssh won't start X forwarding
You don't have to do this.
The easiest way to set this up for a machine you connect to all the time is to edit
the end of your cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat file to look like this:
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So my version of this is:
- start bash shell
- startx
that will usually start the internal windows manager, that's not so good here.
Gives a very weird look. Just xwin is better here.
- export DISPLAY=:0.0 # otherwise ssh won't start X forwarding
we need export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 here, but i