John, Did you ever try using the Cygwin/X server?
Been quite a while since I've used it but I think there was a way to
reconnect a lost mouse pointer from the menu. <snip> We did not for performance reasons. I gather that Cygwin places the X
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 11:09 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: traffic on its own IP stack which then talks to the Windows network stack and thus introduces considerable latency. This is why Xming performs better; it directly uses the native Windows network stack.
In fact, we are eagerly anticipating better performance in general using libssh rather than ssh via Cygwin for the same reason - John