On 26/07/2011 14:20, Howard Feil wrote:
I have installed cygwin on several windows XP 32bit machines. To do the install I used the defaults and then installed all of X11 and Networks. After a little while
about 20 minutes? > when opening a new windows, I get the
error: The application 'gedit' lost its connection to the display localhost:11.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. It doesn't matter what I do next, nothing simple makes the x-server come back alive. This is happening on multiple machines. For some reasons I have other machines that never have a problem. These machines may have older installations. Any advice is appreciated.
Use ssh -Y [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00394.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
