Background: Switched from Exceed yesterday. Quickly realized that remote hosts couldn't contact local x server. xhost <remote_mach> solved that problem. Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost settings didn't persist.
Spent half a day researching and experimenting xauth. My remote host was failing with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 error message. Eventually, I added "-auth ~/.Xauthority" to the command line that starts XWin.exe in startxwin.bat. That did the trick. Question: My question is this... Is there a way to add "-auth ~/.Xauthority" option to the startup of XWin.exe without modifying any of the provided files? Something like the ~/.cvsrc file. I'd like to make sure that the next time X-startup-scripts gets updated, I won't have to remember what I modified and go back and do it again. I tried using ~/.xserverrc but I'd prefer to be able to use startxwin.bat in my startup folder. I could submit a patch that would check for .Xauthority's existence and add the option when detected. If this is a suitable option, let me know and I'll submit it. Thanks in advance. -- Grant Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/