Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

[Eliot Moss]

On 8/10/2016 10:46 AM, Franz Fehringer wrote:
> Dear Cygwin community,
>
> Is it possible to launch Ubuntu on Windows X11 clients agianst the
> Cygwin X11 server?
> A first shot was not a success:
> franz@FEHRINGER:~$ sudo xdpyinfo -display :0
> xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0".
> but on the other hand there are already success stories for U on W
> against Xming.
> I issued xhost + on the Cygwin side and my account is an Administrator one.
> Any hints about this?

Others will know better, but :0 may be trying Unix domain sockets, and
I would not be surprised if UoW and Cygwin do those differently.  Maybe
you should try a TCP/IP connection to the server, e.g., 127.0.0.1:0 or
127.0.0.1:0.0 ?

Regards - Eliot Moss

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