Cygwin X and XInputExtension errors

[Matthew Carpenter]

Really?  When doing SSH, the :11 IS on the localhost. But that's just SSH X
tunnelling.  I'm mostly interested in remote X Sessions (including
KDM/Kwin).

Thanks,
Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Campbell" <linux-sxs at celestial.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Cygwin X and XInputExtension errors


> 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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