[geeks] X11 forwarding over ssh: hostname resolution

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:34:59AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> I have never been able to get X11 forwarding working on Cygwin, myself.
> 
> The display variable never gets set on the remote side.

Odd.

Never had a problem with it myself, use it on occasion myself, but
usually I do the ssh sessions from an xterm rather than from the cmd
window running bash.  Putty does the right thing with cygwin's X11 too.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org