From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31692 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2014 18:23:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31680 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jan 2014 18:23:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtpout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk Received: from smtpout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (HELO smtpout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk) (65.20.0.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:23:20 +0000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A090208.52C70015.0141,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=8/97,refid=2.7.2:2014.1.3.130917:17:8.317,ip=,rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __HAS_FROM, __HAS_REPLYTO, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NO_NAME, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __FORWARDED_MSG, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1200_1299, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, REPLYTO_FROM_DIFF_ADDY, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Received: from [192.168.1.72] (86.174.32.50) by smtpout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (8.6.100.99.10223) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 52B46C8C00AA9BBC; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 18:23:17 +0000 Message-ID: <52C70023.8050204@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:23:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: cwcarlsonc@cox.net Subject: Re: Problem opening remote X applications References: <52C641EF.6070300@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <52C641EF.6070300@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On 03/01/2014 04:51, Chris Carlson wrote: > I just downloaded Cygwin 64-bit for the first time. I've been using Cygwin > 32-bit for years. [...] > I usually "ssh -X " 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. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-twenty-minute-timeout Use 'ssh -Y' -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/