Cygwin X and XInputExtension errors

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>I have been having a devil of a time getting X to work properly between a
>Cygwin X server and a SuSE 8.2pro box set up as a X-Terminal Server.  Here
>is the message I most recently got (this is using SSH with XForwarding).
>When attempting "X -ac -query myserver" I get the same message with
>different display info, and xdm never shows up...
>Does anyone know what causes this?  XInputExtension suggests that perhaps
>there is some library extension in X4.2.x which the Cygwin X-server doesn't
>support, and is heavily required throughout KDE and Yast2, but not in xeyes
>(my favorite X tester).  TIA
>
>Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
>Failed to get list of devices

You may be having problems with your DISPLAY as localhost:11.0.  This looks
like something running from ssh (high display number), and I've found on
many systems that setting ``X11UseLocalhost no'' in the sshd_config file
cures authentication problems.  Having localhost instead of the proper
hostname in the DISPLAY may well confuse remote systems.

Bill
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