public inbox for cygwin@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: mrron@princeton.edu
Subject: Re: X server does not display output from X client
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <551BF67C.8060709@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551BE57A.4080906@princeton.edu>

On 01/04/2015 13:32, MrRon wrote:
> I am running XWin Server on my Windows 7 machine. This starts up xinit,
> xterm & XWin.
> In the xterm window I enter
> $ xhost +eis103l
> and on eis103l I enter
> $ export DISPLAY=eis-mrron.princeton.edu:0.0
>
> I then run an Xwindow program on eis103l but nothing is displayed on
> eis-mrron.
> There is no firewall block at eis103l and I've turned off the Windows
> firewall. After

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-remote-clients-cant-connect

Start the server with -listen tcp, or (better) stop doing things this 
way and use ssh -Y instead.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01 12:33 MrRon
2015-04-01 13:45 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2015-04-02 12:34   ` MrRon

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=551BF67C.8060709@dronecode.org.uk \
    --to=jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk \
    --cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
    --cc=mrron@princeton.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).