Re: Cannot launch ssh from X11 system tray icon

[Dirk Fassbender <dirk dot fassbender at arcor dot de>]

Am 28.03.2012 12:10, schrieb Craig:
> I don't suppose anyone has any thoughts on this?
> It's rendered Cygwin X11 unusable. :-(
> Can any further diagnostics be enabled?
>
> On 23 March 2012 17:56, Craig wrote:
> > I have two machines, a desktop and a laptop.
> > Both are 64bit Windows 7 Enterprise installations.
> >
> > I (think I) configured Cygwin on both the same and they have the same
> > identical ~/.XWinrc file.
> > They both use the same mirror for installing and are both fully up to date.
> >
> > A précis of my .XWinrc looks like this:
> >
> > menu root {
> > // Comments fit here, too...
> > "Xterm" exec "xterm"
> > "Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh vulpix xterm -e bash --login"
> > }
> >
> > And on the desktop both work and on the laptop only the local xterm will run.
> > Nothing appers in /var/log/<anything>
> >
> > So I added an entry like this:
> >
> > "Experiment" exec ~/experiment
> >
> > and ~/experiment looks like this
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > (
> > set -x
> > ssh -v vulpix xterm
> > )>  /tmp/experiment 2>&1
> >
> > It still fails (i.e. does nothing) and /tmp/experiment has
> >
> >
> > So can anyone tell me why I get the select / waitForMultipleObjects error?
> >
> > If I'm in the xterm I *can* run, I have zero problems running
> >
> > $ ssh vulpix xterm -e bash --login
Hello Craig,

you have to use X11 Forwarding. Try

menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
"Xterm" exec "xterm"
"Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh -Y vulpix xterm -e bash --login"
}

or

menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
"Xterm" exec "xterm"
"Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh -X vulpix xterm -e bash --login"
}

Dirk



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