X11 forwarding window recovery
 

I do a lot of X11 forwarding using ssh -Y. My question is this: Is it possible to recover a GUI window that is being forwarded via ssh -Y if something happens to the host system. For example: Using cygwin to ssh into my linux server and start an application that brings up a multi-windowed gui. The Windows box I'm using reboots, can I recover my gui windows without having to restart my application?

Wags

Yeah, I use ssh often and to recall the terminal I use a programme called screen.

I am not sure it can handle X because I never tried it, but if you run it before starting up your X window, I believe it should work snce it is a terminal session tobegin with.

No, terminating the window on the client system will also terminate the program on the server. If you want this functionality you should use VNC or RDP instead.