XDM to linux box questions

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Sarangan
Hi I am using cygwin/XFree86 on a Win2k computer to communicate with my linux box (Slackware version). I successfully configured both systems so that I was able to log in via XDM into my linux box. However, recently this has stopped working. My XDM queries now go unanswered. I suspect that this h

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2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
Seeing as I don't have that clip thing, here's some paraphrased debug messages: Warning: No xauth data; using fake auth data for X11 forwarding debug1: Requesting X11 fwd w/ auth spoofing debug1: channel request 0: x11-req debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. Does that m

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
At 04:50 PM Thursday 3/6/2003, you wrote: Hmm looked through the mail again and saw: |> > ssh -x remote-host Have you tried "ssh -X", capital X, using small x disables ssh forwarding. Sorry, sloppy typing. I've been using -X, the text in this email was a typo. Meanwhile: / Chris Horn <[EMAIL

Re: xwinclip not working with xdm

2003-03-06 Thread J S
J S wrote: > Does anyone else here use xdm? Could you test this out and let me know if > your xwinclip works on it? I'm using XWin with wdm. I don't need winclip very often so I only start it when I really need it. I've seen no problems (beside that the selection immediatly disappears after

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
I had restarted sshd. At 04:45 PM Thursday 3/6/2003, you wrote: Chris, Okay, so you had X11Forwarding disabled before. What have you done to make sshd re-read its configuration file? Specifically restarted sshd? Restarted the entire machine? What? I suspect that sshd happily thinks that X

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
Hmm looked through the mail again and saw: |> > ssh -x remote-host Have you tried "ssh -X", capital X, using small x disables ssh forwarding. Meanwhile: / Chris Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | At the other end, /etc/ssh/sshd_config now has the line "X11Forwarding yes" | | Still no go. | | Whe

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, Okay, so you had X11Forwarding disabled before. What have you done to make sshd re-read its configuration file? Specifically restarted sshd? Restarted the entire machine? What? I suspect that sshd happily thinks that X11Forwarding is still disabled. Harold Chris Horn wrote: At the

Re: xwinclip not working with xdm

2003-03-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
J S wrote: > Does anyone else here use xdm? Could you test this out and let me know if > your xwinclip works on it? I'm using XWin with wdm. I don't need winclip very often so I only start it when I really need it. I've seen no problems (beside that the selection immediatly disappears after I re

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
At the other end, /etc/ssh/sshd_config now has the line "X11Forwarding yes" Still no go. When I connect, the DISPLAY value on the remote box appears null. When I'm local, it's "localhost:0.0" The error I receive when trying to run apps is "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:" When I used xhost

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Chris Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able | to find out why using | | ssh -X remote-host Try to throw on one or two -v's to check what ssh thinks. >From where do you do ssh -X remote-host, and what is the value of the variable $

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Anton Vaaranmaa
Viestissä Torstai 6. Maaliskuuta 2003 23:04, Chris Horn kirjoitti: > Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able to > find out why using > ssh -X remote-host Have you configured the remote end to accept X forwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? -- /(anton)

SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able to find out why using ssh -X remote-host wouldn't actually let you run X apps on the distant machine (to display locally). I'm using the absolute latest and greatest Cygwin XFree86 (fetched yesterday). Any help would be muc

Re: xwinclip not working with xdm

2003-03-06 Thread J S
Does anyone else here use xdm? Could you test this out and let me know if your xwinclip works on it? Thanks, JS. Nope, never seen that before. J S wrote: Hi, When I run xdm to an AIX box (either with -clipboard or xwinclip standalone) I'm unable to select text to copy. The highlight won't st

Re: Running GIMP under Cygwin (not Win32!)??

2003-03-06 Thread Rui-Tao Dong
1.2.1 compiles more or less out of the box and runs fine w/ most of the plugins. However, it is very very slow. My 200MHz PPro Linux box w/256MB memory and a remote display runs much snappier than the 2GHz P4 W2k box w/1GMB Memory running CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.12 with local XFree. -- Rui-

Re: compiling Motif (Lesstif) program

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | I just try learning X and Motif. | I have a very simple program: | | ---snip--- [... my snip ...] | ---snip--- | and try to compile it using: | gcc -o simple simple.c -I /usr/X11R6/include/ -L /usr/X11R6/lib/ -lXm -lXt | -lX11 Could it be a missing -lSM before

Re: XWin hangs when accessing font server

2003-03-06 Thread Cary Jamison
"Alexander Gottwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Martin Buck wrote: > > > xset fp+ tcp/fonts:7100 > > > > As soon as the xset commands runs, XWin locks up and consumes 100% > > CPU time. The same happens if I don't use XDMCP and only start XWin > > and a s

Re: Application Problem: InsightII

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
|> My questions are: |> 1. If the XFree86 module is loaded does this mean that glx is also |> loaded? If my memory don't fail me, the glx-module or whatever is not ported to cygwin.. yet.. It can be found in some X-servers on the linux-end, most often distributed by those who made the graphics ca

compiling Motif (Lesstif) program

2003-03-06 Thread Klaus . Moschner
Hi, I just try learning X and Motif. I have a very simple program: ---snip--- #include #include #include main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Widget toplevel, msg; Arg al[10]; int ac; toplevel=XtInitialize(argv[0],"",NULL,0,&argc,argv); ac=0; XtSetArg(al[ac],XmNlabelString,XmStringCrea

XWin.exe version information

2003-03-06 Thread Pablo Halpern
At 11:54 AM 3/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Pablo Halpern wrote: > [snip] > P.P.S. Is there some way other than running cygwin setup that I can > determine the version of my XWin.exe program? "cygcheck -c | grep XFree" This will only determine the version of the XFree package, not t

Re: 4.2.0-26 multiwindow bug: closing apps causes repeated keystrokes

2003-03-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Pablo Halpern wrote: > [snip] > P.P.S. Is there some way other than running cygwin setup that I can > determine the version of my XWin.exe program? "cygcheck -c | grep XFree" This will only determine the version of the XFree package, not the XWin.exe program (though they are r

4.2.0-26 multiwindow bug: closing apps causes repeated keystrokes

2003-03-06 Thread Pablo Halpern
I've been using -multiwindow -clipboard for a few weeks now. I LOVE IT! Cygwin/Xfree86 is almost as good as Exceed now. Despite being "experimental" I've found both features to be fairly stable. Kudos to the developers. I want to report a reproducible problem when using the keyboard to close

Re: Application Problem: InsightII

2003-03-06 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
if it needs Motif, try to use lesstif (available with the cygwin installer) > From what I can see it uses Opengl and the glx libraries but the > application > might also require Motif. > > My questions are: > 1. If the XFree86 module is loaded does this mean that glx is also > loaded? > 2. Is the

Application Problem: InsightII

2003-03-06 Thread Uli Horn
Hi I have an molecular modelling application developed by Accelrys called insightII which runs on an SGI. I would like to view it remotely on a PC using the X Windows System. I have tested it using eXceed 3D (MS Windows remote X Windows package) and it seems to function properly but when I use e

Problem with fresh install

2003-03-06 Thread Joe Fair
Greetings, I am a cygwin newbie, but I've used some other unixes. My problem is that when I start up startxwin.bat, the window opens with a checkered backgroud but nothing else happens. When I set my display to localhost:0.0 and start xterm or twm from the command line, I get a segme

success with icewm 1.2.6 on Win2k

2003-03-06 Thread David Turland
Hi, This may be old news but I searched the cygwin-xfree archives and found nothing... Anyway, I have just successfully built and installed IceWM 1.2.6 on Win2K. Surprisingly painless which is why I assume its old news :) However the http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html page still tal