How display graphic by cygwin

Peng Yu yupeng_@hotmail.com
Sat Jun 28 16:39:00 GMT 2003


I use command
ssh -X myaccount@remotehost
then acroread.
But it dosen't work.

Peng
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Dessent" <brian@dessent.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: How display graphic by cygwin


> Peng Yu wrote:
>
> >     I just installed the minimum set of cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 on a
> > Window XP. I can startx at the localhost(my Window XP machine).
> >     Then I sshed to a remote Linux host and ran acroread. "Error: Can't
not
> > open display:" was displayed. Could somebody help me to fix this
problem.
>
> You need to include the "-X" argument to ssh to forward X11 from the
> remote host to your local machine.
>
> Brian
>
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