From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2257 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2014 12:05:58 -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 2244 invoked by uid 89); 2 Oct 2014 12:05:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out5-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:05:55 +0000 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB26209BF for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2014 08:05:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:05:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.93] (unknown [86.139.181.83]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 36570C0000A; Thu, 2 Oct 2014 08:05:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <542D3F9A.4070000@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:05:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: cwcarlsonc@cox.net Subject: Re: Problem with Cygwin/X from remote Linux References: <542CCC31.5090303@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <542CCC31.5090303@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On 02/10/2014 04:53, Chris Carlson wrote: > I've been using Cygwin on a Windows 7 laptop for a few years as an X > server from my Fedora Linux system. I "ssh -X" to my Linux system and > run various X programs (thunderbird, chrome, nautilus, etc.) with very > few issues. > [...] > > Welcome to the XWin X Server > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Release: 1.16.1.0 > OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 grover 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 > OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (Win64) > Package: version 1.16.1-1 built 2014-09-29 > > XWin was started with the following command line: > > X :0 -multiwindow > > I discovered there are no visuals available to remote X connections that > support OpenGL double buffering. There used to be, but no longer. > There are visuals available to direct connections, but not for remote. Thanks for reporting this problem. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it. Please can you attach the output of 'X -multiwindow -logverbose 3', so I can see what visuals the server thinks should be available, and the output of running 'glxinfo' on your remote system. Can you give the version of Fedora you are using, and the version of the libGL package you have? > I tried looking through the FAQ for answers, but I didn't see anything. > Is this something that has intentionally changed? Where would I find it > if it is (for future reference so I don't bug you)? No, this is not intentional. I guess this is an unintended consequence of a change. It would be useful in tracking down that change if you could identify the last X server release which worked correctly. The release announce mails are a hopefully accurate summary of intended changes (e.g [1]) [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-09/msg00004.html -- 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/