Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
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/
Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/ I'm not that thrilled about using ~/.xserverrc because it is meant to start an alternate server from startx, not just provide extra options. -- Grant Mills -- 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/
Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/ I'm not that thrilled about using ~/.xserverrc because it is meant to start an alternate server from startx, not just provide extra options. -- 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. -- Grant Mills -- 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/
X server start problem
I've just downloaded and installed cygwin on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, which runs Windows XP. However I am having difficulty getting the X server to work, and I am writing to ask for suggestions and help. What follows is a description of what I have done, and a copy of an XWin.log file that was produced upon trying to start X. 1. I downloaded and installed cygwin (version 1.5.24-2), using the install all option (not the default option---but I've tried both, it seems not to matter), as user peter with full administrative privileges. The installation seemed to proceed flawlessly. 2. Clicking on the cygwin desktop icon brings up a cygwin window, but does not copy .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .inputrc to my home directory. [However if I log in to a different account on the same (stand-alone) machine, those files DO get copied to the home directory of that user upon the first invocation of cygwin.] 3. Clicking on the X icon (either before or after step 2) will then cause the appearance of a window (xterm?) for a fraction of a second, BUT NOT LONGER. Although XWin is started (along with xinit), it is non-functional. The command ps -elf shows both XWin and xinit as running processes, owned by user peter. No X applications will run, and no DISPLAY gets set. [Even if I manually set the DISPLAY=:0.0 (or DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0) it does not work---I would expect that the DISPLAY environment variable would get set automatically.] If i give the command gnuplot in the cygwin window, it starts, but with term=unknown. [If I manually set the DISPLAY variable, gnuplot starts with term=X11, but a command such as plot x does not work.] 4. If I attempt to log out at this point, Windows fails to kill XWin gracefully, and pops up the Exit Now window, which says A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit... ... Release: 6.8.99.901-4 ... XWin started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/gin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error and I have to click on the Exit Now button to complete the log out. 5. Sometimes step 4 happens even when I have used the kill -9 command to kill the XWin process number shown in the output from ps -elf. 6. The X server will also not start when invoked from a different account on the same machine. 7. Giving the startx command in the cygwin window also does not work, with results similar to the above. Here is a typical XWin.log: === _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1200 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (USA) (409), type 4 (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. === Any thoughts or suggestions as to how I might proceed would be most appreciated. Should I pay attention to the line above that says: (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap? If so, what should I do about it? [that line does not always appear in XWin.log files that are produced when I fool around trying things.] -- Peter Scott -- 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/
