May 17, 2004

Cygwin X Server on Windows XP

Just a note to myself. To start the X server on Cygwin simply type:

startx

Check on the remote machine that the DISPLAY setting is pointing back to your local machine when the Cgywin X server is running. For some reason I thought it was going to be much more difficult. When the X terminal window comes up you can check the permissions of your local machine by typing

xhost +

Issues:

Cutting and pasting between X and Windows

Caveats:

Don't kill the terminal machine or all of your X applications will die.

Posted by stuartcw at May 17, 2004 04:43 PM
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