When using PuTTY with X11 forwarding enabled X clients are no longer able to connect to the X server running locally. When reverting back to 1.3.2-1 the problem goes away.
This may be related to the -nolisten tcp which is now the default[1]. If this is indeed the case it would be create of adding the '-listen' flag to startxwin could be added to the FAQ. Or another, more secure, solution would also be appreciated. [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-12/msg00024.html Laurens -- 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/