[vox-tech] Cygwin/XFree86 question

Richard S. Crawford vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 09 Jan 2003 00:39:15 -0800


Getting closer.  X server is not responding on the host.  I'll make it 
work.  My hammer's around here somewhere.


Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I've got Cygwin/XFree86 running on my WinXP laptop, and I'm trying to 
> get a display from a remote session showing up in my Cygwin display.
> 
> I'm logged in to the remote server just fine via ssh.
> 
> However, when I try to run emacs, I get this error:
> 
> ========================================================
> $ xemacs test.txt
> connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory
> ========================================================
> 
> ...and when I try to run xterm, I get...
> 
> ========================================================
> $ xterm
> connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory
> X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> ========================================================
> 
> Assuming that I am the master of the remote computer in question, what 
> must I do on that computer to make this work?
> 
> 
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