[virt-tools-list] virt-viewer via ssh -X

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0000, Kirkpatrick, Jeffrey W wrote:
> I am attempting to run virt-viewer via a CYGWIN X session on my Windows laptop, but am getting all sorts of errors when I do.
> 
> >From a CYGWIN session, I run startx, then ssh -X to the KVM Host server. From there I run the following command:
> 
> [root at kvmhost1 ~]# virt-viewer rhel6guest
> 
> And the virt-viewer window does display, however with no readable font on the task bar, just a bunch of rectangles. After a few minutes the virt-viewer screen dies, too.
[...]
> Anyone have any insights?

What's the output of xdpyinfo?

It's unfortunate that Gtk is not well tested in the remote case and is
often a bit broken.  I use a few Gtk apps remotely all the time and
tend to notice this.  Fonts and icons are usually what breaks.

Rich.

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