[mythtv-users] Running mythsetup from a Windows PC running Cygwin

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 22:00:01 UTC 2006


On 2/7/06, Ray Benjamin <raybenjamin at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Tried the suggestion below, but couldn't find a line allow
> X-forwarding yes. I did find the line:
>
> # ForwardX11 no
>
> so I uncommented it, restarted ssh, and tried again, with exactly the
> same result. I also checked the manpage for ssh_config. It doesn't
> have anything about allow X-forwarding, but it sounds like ForwardX11
> is what I was looking for.
>
> Any further ideas?

Try changing it to read "ForwardX11 yes"

And make sure the client is set to forward X11 too. If you're using
Cygwin's SSH client, try "ssh -X username at host", or if you're using
puTTY, try making sure the "Connection Options" have X11 forwarding
enabled.
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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