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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Cc: hiking_feil@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E318140.7030602@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311686439.44436.YahooMailNeo@web161429.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

On 26/07/2011 14:20, Howard Feil wrote:
> I have installed cygwin on several windows XP 32bit machines.  To do the install I used the defaults and then installed all of X11 and
> Networks.  After a little while

about 20 minutes?

 > when opening a new windows, I get the
> error:
>
>
> The application 'gedit' lost its connection to the display localhost:11.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
>
> It doesn't matter what I do next, nothing simple makes the x-server come back alive.
>
> This
>   is happening on multiple machines.  For some reasons I have other
> machines that never have a problem.  These machines may have older
> installations.
>
>
> Any advice is appreciated.

Use ssh -Y

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00394.html

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28 15:33 Howard Feil
2011-07-28 15:47 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1311949646.24780.YahooMailNeo@web161423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
2011-08-01 18:44     ` Jon TURNEY
     [not found]       ` <1312819650.57882.YahooMailNeo@web161424.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
2011-08-08 20:46         ` Howard Feil
2011-08-10 12:10           ` Jon TURNEY
2012-05-15 21:50             ` Lester Ingber

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