Use the latest Cygwin installers (at least version 2.829)
? There is no such version.Setup.exe version 2.844 (64 bit)
); the latest version from http://cygwin.com is always recommended, but (currently) at least version 2.829 is absolutely required.startxwin
and hit enter. Two new tray icons appear. One of them resembles the cygwin logo, but with a green X inside the black C. I left click that tray icon and find Image Viewer on the Graphics menu. When I click that, Eye of GNOME starts. (And the 'auto refresh' feature works.)xterm
from the remote host linuxserver
command | description |
XWin | Cygwin/X binary |
:0 | Display number |
-clipboard | Start with clipboard support |
-multiwindow | Show every X11 window in its own window |
DISPLAY=:0.0 | Tell which xserver to use. This matches with the display number from server startup |
ssh | Start OpenSSH |
-f | Do not show a remote shell. Just start the program |
-Y | Tunnel the X11 protocol in the ssh connection |
linuxserver | Name of the remote host |
xterm | Program to start. Just as you would start it locally |
command | description |
XWin | Cygwin/X binary |
:0 | Display number |
-clipboard | Start with clipboard support |
Here we omit the -multiwindow switch since we want the whole desktop to be displayed in one window | |
DISPLAY=:0.0 | Tell which xserver to use. This matches with the display number from server startup |
ssh | Start OpenSSH |
-f | Do not show a remote shell. Just start the program |
-Y | Tunnel the X11 protocol in the ssh connection |
linuxserver | Name of the remote host |
startkde | Startup program for the desktop environment. You can use .xinitrc too. This will behave as if you had run startx locally |
command | description |
startx | program which starts the xserver and the xclients |
/usr/bin/ssh -f -Y linuxserver startkde | The client to start. Basicly the same as above |
-- | Tell startx that server options follow |
:0 -clipboard | Options for XWin |
Could not open display
then check the FAQ about X11Forwarding