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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: Howard Feil <hiking_feil@yahoo.com> Cc: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:44:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <4E36F3EA.1040404@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1311949646.24780.YahooMailNeo@web161423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> On 29/07/2011 15:27, Howard Feil wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > So far ssh -Y seems to be doing the trick. Good. I'd like to know a bit more about why this is happening, though, so if you could share the OS and sshd version which is running on the machine you are sshd-ing to, and the output when you connect using ssh -vvv -X, that would be interesting. > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 18:44 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 [not found] ` <1311949646.24780.YahooMailNeo@web161423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> 2011-08-01 18:44 ` Jon TURNEY [this message] [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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