Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/11/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You probably could try to figure out if the X server is working and then > see which display is being used from that but I really don't think it > makes sense to slow down mintty to perform this check. FWIW, this > wouldn't work with the linux con

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 05:14:56PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 11 October 2010 17:02, reckoner wrote: >>Evidently, there is some subtle difference in how the DISPLAY variable, >>which is set in the user startup files is processed by rxvt as opposed >>to mintty. >> >>Ultimately, although the DISPLA

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-11 Thread Andy Koppe
On 11 October 2010 17:02, reckoner wrote: > Evidently, there is some subtle difference in how the DISPLAY variable, > which is set in the user startup files is processed by rxvt as opposed to > mintty. > > Ultimately, although the DISPLAY variable is clearly set in the user startup > files, I addit

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-11 Thread reckoner
Thanks for your reply. Evidently, there is some subtle difference in how the DISPLAY variable, which is set in the user startup files is processed by rxvt as opposed to mintty. Ultimately, although the DISPLAY variable is clearly set in the user startup files, I additionally had to set it hi

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Reckoner wrote: >Hi, > >I'm starting my xserver using > > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow >-clipboard -silent-dup-error > >and then I do: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh > >when I do > > % ssh -Y h...@remote.ed