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Or check lsof -p <PID of your local X server> where you should be able to find the /some/thing/Xn file, the n being your DISPLAY number.

peterph
– peterph

2012-11-29 14:58:57 +00:00
Commented Nov 29, 2012 at 14:58
Thanks, this was quite helpful. Somehow my /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 file was removed, although there was still an X server running. A quick reboot seems to have resolved the problem. Possibly caused by some updates I did a while back.

John Doucette
– John Doucette

2012-11-29 15:00:43 +00:00
Commented Nov 29, 2012 at 15:00
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Changing the DISPLAY variable from ":0.0" to "localhost:0.0" seems to have done the trick for me, at least connecting from Cygwin to Linux.

m0j0
– m0j0

2015-08-04 23:28:27 +00:00
Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 23:28
FWIW, I had to run startxwin (after apt-cyg install xinit) from the cygwin host because I'm connecting local Windows to remote unix

Jonathan
– Jonathan

2016-09-06 22:47:55 +00:00
Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 22:47

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