XWin no longer working for me with -nolisten tcp?

[Matt D.]

This workaround I mentioned only appears to work for my local X session. 
For example, I can open a local xterm from Cygwin:

$ xterm

But once I connect elsewhere:

$ ssh me@somewhere -Y

I get the following error when trying to bring up an xterm:

$ xterm
connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: Permission denied
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0

I tried purging /tmp on Cygwin but to no avail.

Note that the server I am connecting to has not been rebooted in months 
and nothing has changed there.


Matt D.


On 2/17/2017 2:20 PM, Matt D. wrote:
>
> I just recently formatted and reinstalled Windows 10 x64. I have not
> updated anything related to Cygwin and everything version-wise is just
> as it was.
>
> I was previously starting X with the following:
>
> $ xinit -- -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -noprimary -dpi 96
> -nolisten tcp -displayfd 3 3>/c/home/.display
>
> But now it fails to open the display:
>
> http://pastebin.com/raw/bLHTWcrS
>
> I can get around this issue by using "-listen tcp" instead of "-nolisten
> tcp" but I don't understand why. This is especially ironic considering
> that this is the complete opposite workaround to what I had to use three
> years ago:
>
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-07/msg00017.html
>
>
> Matt D.
>

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