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Re: X server does not display output from X client


On 01/04/2015 13:32, MrRon wrote:
I am running XWin Server on my Windows 7 machine. This starts up xinit,
xterm & XWin.
In the xterm window I enter
$ xhost +eis103l
and on eis103l I enter
$ export DISPLAY=eis-mrron.princeton.edu:0.0

I then run an Xwindow program on eis103l but nothing is displayed on
eis-mrron.
There is no firewall block at eis103l and I've turned off the Windows
firewall. After

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-remote-clients-cant-connect

Start the server with -listen tcp, or (better) stop doing things this way and use ssh -Y instead.

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