Cygwin on a Windows 7 Box. Start Cygwin Bash Shell and issue startxdmcp command: startxdmcp.bat 10.12.13.14 # where 10.12.13.14 is the IP of the remote Linux Box # you are trying to get a login window from # try it raw aswell, no change XWin.exe -ac -query 10.12.13.14...
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Cygwin GNU Utils as a Work-a-round for Broken Windows 7 Search
Remember in XP when you could press F3 type in the file contents you were searching for and be confident you would be able to find all the files that contained a search term. That is no longer the case. You can dig around the W7 Search menus and tell Windows 7 to...
Cygwin X – failed to activate core devices
Recently updated my Cygwin install on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Workstation. Tried to run startxdmcp.bat and got a Cygwin X error - failed to activate core devices Looking in /var/log/XWin.0.log showed nothing obvious as to why the X server failed to start. Ran Cygwin...