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Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: hiking_feil at yahoo dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:33:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed
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On 26/07/2011 14:20, Howard Feil wrote:
I have installed cygwin on several windows XP 32bit machines. To do the install I used the defaults and then installed all of X11 and
Networks. After a little while
about 20 minutes?
> when opening a new windows, I get the
error:
The application 'gedit' lost its connection to the display localhost:11.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
It doesn't matter what I do next, nothing simple makes the x-server come back alive.
This
is happening on multiple machines. For some reasons I have other
machines that never have a problem. These machines may have older
installations.
Any advice is appreciated.
Use ssh -Y
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00394.html
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Jon TURNEY
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