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From: Chris Carlson <cwcarlsonc@cox.net> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Problem opening remote X applications Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:52:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <52C641EF.6070300@cox.net> (raw) I just downloaded Cygwin 64-bit for the first time. I've been using Cygwin 32-bit for years. I'm running on Windows 7, and my Cygwin 32-bit has been working reasonably well for a long time. My only issue with it was a problem it had with my Caps Lock key. For whatever reason, focus would switch windows whenever I pressed the Caps Lock key. The caps would lock, but focus would change. I finally decided to download the latest and greatest to see if it has been fixed. It appears that it is no longer an issue. Now I have a new problem. I usually "ssh -X <remote>" to a remote Linux machine. I can then read mail (thunderbird), edit documents (LibreOffice 3.x), run Chrome, and edit programs (Emacs). I'll have half a dozen windows open through the X tunnel provided by ssh. Works well and lasts for hours. After upgrading to Cygwin 64-bit (this last weekend), everything *seems* to be okay for a while. After about 20 minutes, though, I can no longer open windows remotely. Even though I have thunderbird currently open, when I try to run Chrome, I get "(google-chrome:20006): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0". If I try to open xclock from the command line, I get: xclock Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 Does anybody know what happened? Why has the tunnel disappeared? It hasn't actually disappeared because I'm still running thunderbird through it. Thanks for any assistance on this. Chris -- 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 reply other threads:[~2014-01-03 4:52 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-01-03 4:52 Chris Carlson [this message] 2014-01-03 18:23 ` Jon TURNEY [not found] ` <9WPN1n00H2ceNJh01WPP1l> 2014-01-04 4:39 ` Chris Carlson
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