X session in Git Bash on Windows?

Question

I\'m using Git Bash on Windows. I have used Git Bash to SSH into a UNIX machine and tried to run a program with a GUI. I got the message: LINUX/UNIX system detected, but unable

Answer 1

This Q is rather old, but anyway... I was (at last...) able to get this working using the ssh command from Git for Windows and XMing. All I had to do was to set the DISPLAY environment variable to localhost:0.0 (it was set to only :0.0).