Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F102073.97B0B652@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:51:31 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't get ssh to forward X packets References: <20030711194107.97914.qmail@web20421.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Nokes wrote: > no changes. When looking at the verbose output, no mention of X forwarding at > all. I know I'm doing it correctly: > ssh -X username@host > ... and I do log in successfully, but there's never a $DISPLAY variable set on > the remote host, as there should be. When I check $DISPLAY when logging in > with SecureCRT, I can see it just fine, and X forwards perfectly. So, the What is $DISPLAY set to prior to running the ssh command? If nothing, try setting it to ":0". Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/