[UFO Chicago] Cygwin help?

[Brian Sobolak]

kannaiah at bsd.uchicago.edu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Had a quick question on cygwin. I am trying to use it to ssh to one of our
> linux
> servers and and try running a x-windows application.
>
> But i get the error: Cannot open Display. The other warnings can be
> ignored as
> they are specific to the application that i am trying to run.
>
> $ consed
> no ./.consedrc file so no project-specific resources--that's ok
> couldn't open readOrder.txt--that's ok
> Error: Can't open display:
>
>
> I was successfully running the apps using x-win32.
>
> Any ideas how to get the display working and the GUI to pop up?

Have you forwarded the ports on ssh session for X?

brian



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