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Re: what changed? can't run notepad from remote bash session anymore
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:48:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: what changed? can't run notepad from remote bash session anymore
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:14:01PM -0700, David Wuertele wrote:
>When I ssh into one of my older cygwin hosts, I can run "notepad" on
>the command line and it maps a window on that host's console. But
>when I ssh into a new cygwin install I made, when I run "notepad" I
>can see that the process is created, but the window never maps.
>
>This is true not only of notepad. In fact, I couldn't care less about
>notepad, but the IDE I get from my vendor has the same problem --- on
>my new system, I can't cause it to properly run from a remote login.
>On the host's console I can run Task Manager and I see that the IDE
>(just like notepad) is running but the CPU usage is zero. The window
>is never mapped. It is getting hung up as if it couldn't find a
>display.
>
>I checked my environment and I don't see anything that jumps out at
>me. I'm appending the result of printenv on the command line on the
>host that works and on the host that is broken. Any suggestions?
My #1 suggestion would be to go back to http://cygwin.com/lists.html
and to stare hard at the description for this mailing list and see
if anything jumps out at you.
cgf