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Re: what changed? can't run notepad from remote bash session anymore


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


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