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When trying to connect remote clients to Cygwin/X, I get 'Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified'

I just installed Cygwin/X and I launch it with startxwin -- -listen tcp to allow remote clients to connect to it through tcp. However, remote clients fail to connect to the remote display with the following error message: Authorization required, but…
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How do I prevent Cygwin's XWin Server automatically starting xterm?

Whenever I start Cygwin's X server using the "XWin Server" link in my Start menu, or by running startxwin from a Cygwin shell, I automatically get an xterm window appearing, which I neither want nor need. How do I avoid that? (Question inspired by…
me_and
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how do i install pip in cygwin?

I want to install pip in cygwin (Windows 10). When I try that I get the comment that the destination file is missing. So how can I choose file? Is there any way to see the entire file system in cygwin? I have, or so I thought, already installed pip…
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Cygwin X on high DPI

On my Windows 10 Surface Pro (2736x1824 resolution), whenever I connect via PuTTY to an Ubuntu 14.04 server and run Eclipse or gVim over Cygwin X, the text and windows are extremely small. I can drag the windows over to my desktop monitor…
Josh Kelley
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Starting xterm under Cygwin from the Start Menu

I'm running Cygwin under Windows 7. How can I create a start menu entry (or desktop shortcut) to start xterm? Currently, I have to start the Cygwin/X server, and each time I want a new xterm, I have to right click on the X server icon in the tray,…
PonyEars
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Eclipse running slow over Cygwin ssh

I use Cygwin running under Windows XP to make an X Windows ssh connection to a RedHat server. I’ve run a few applications through the Cygwin/X interface, and they perform fine. However, the main application I use is Eclipse for C/C++ development…
Dean Hill
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cygwin at-spi-bus-launcher and xwin-xdg-menu high cpu

Running cygwin/X I see at-spi-bus-launcher and xwin-xdg-menu are using most of the cpu. There are two instances of xwin-xdg-menu. Between the three of them there isn't much left for anything else. How can I fix this?
Miserable Variable
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Always run X11 on Windows 10?

I have Cygwin-X installed on my Windows 10 machine. When I run XLaunch, everything starts up fine. What I would like, though, for X11 to start up, and stay running, when Windows starts, and to continue running, even when there are no X/11…
Jeff Dege
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How do I open a file in Cygwin Emacs from Windows?

I am trying to make Windows open text files in Emacs, which I have installed under Cygwin. I have followed these instructions: and created a bat file like this: @echo off chdir C:\LocalApp\cygwin\bin start mintty.exe /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe %1 It…
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start X window applications with Cygwin+Xming or CygwinX on Windows 7 64-bit?

I followed the instructions from previous posts on superuser to try and install cygwin including xorg-server as well as trying the alternative of bringing up X windows using Xming (including setting up the fonts), but I can't get any X windows to…
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Multiple Putty and Cygwin/X sessions not working

I'm trying to connect multiple Putty Sessions at once, and have a single CygwinX server running on my machine. The first putty session i open is able to successfully launch a gnome-terminal, proving that the X11 forwarding is working. However, the…
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Xming and Cygwin/X

For the sole purpose of remotely accessing X applications on Linux from a Windows machine: What are the differences between Xming and Cygwin/X? (e.g. in terms of speed/features). Do they satisfy the same needs? Also, there seem to be two separate…
Amelio Vazquez-Reina
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Copying files in a pipeline using cygwin bash shellscript

I need to select certain files in a directory and copy them to another directory using a cygwin script but I cannot get the syntax for the copy. i.e. for i in cat boards do ls -t $work |grep ^$i |cp ............. If I run with just the grep it…
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switch to x server window using alt tab program switcher

For x server (Cygwin X server hosted on windows platform) the alt-tab program switcher does not work. The x server window (in my case gvim) does not show up in the list of windows when using alt-tab. Although the window is present in the taskbar at…
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How to install Cygserver

I'm programming in UNIX, so I'm using Cygwin. But functions of IPC does not work on it, just in Cygserver. How can I install it? I'm looked in google and did not find any concrete information. Thanks for your time :)
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