On 3/7/07, Grant Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grant Mills wrote:
> > 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.
>
> ~/.xserverrc sounds like a perfectly good spot to me. It won't get changed
> out from under you in the next upgrade (whenever that is) like
> startxwin.bat.
>
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I'm not that thrilled about using ~/.xserverrc because it is meant to
start an alternate server from startx, not just provide extra options.
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Grant Mills
Argh!!! Nevermind. I was certain that my XAUTHORITY environment
variable was set. It wasn't. What a great way to waste half a day.
Sorry for the interruption.
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Grant Mills
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