[UFO Chicago] Cygwin help?

[kannaiah at bsd.uchicago.edu]

Its working fine now. 
I had to run startx first to open the x-window.
Then i did  "ssh -Y -l username hostname"

after that it was working fine.

Thanks guys:)
Kiran


Quoting Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com>:

> 
> 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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> Brian Sobolak
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