Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for x11 forwarding
When I connect from cygwin to a remote host using 'ssh -Y', I get the warning: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for x11 forwarding How can I fix this? Thanks! kj
xinit vs. startx
I start X in one of two ways from the CL on a Cygwin terminal: via xinit or via startx. (Needing the Cygwin terminal to do this is something I'd like to avoid; see (3) below.) When I start X using xinit, a large window appears that covers the entire screen; it cannot be resized but it can be minimized, and it behaves like a desktop (it can contain other X windows applications). At startup this desktop window contains a single xterm, from which I can start new X applications that live within the boundaries of the desktop window. If I hit control-D in this xterm, both it and the large desktop window disappear. In contrast, when I start using startx, I get the lone xterm, without the large fixed-size desktop window containing it. I can invoke X applications from within this xterm, and these applications live on the standard Windows desktop. 1. What exactly causes the different behavior between running xinit and running startx? As far as I can tell, both xinit and startx use the directives listed in my .xinitrc file (which is identical to the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc that is installed by default with cygwin). Does startx invoke xinit or the other way around (or none of the above)? 2. Is there any way I can (re)set the size of the desktop-like window produced by xinit so that it does not take up the entire screen? 3. Is there any way that I can launch startx (and thereby get a terminal from which I can launch X applications) by clicking on some desktop/launcher icon without first needing to bring up a (non-X-capable) Cygwin terminal? Thanks! kj
Re: xwin produces flickery gray screen; cut/paste
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I just installed Cygwin, including X, on my Windows2000 workstation. When I execute xwin, I get an awful-looking window, with horizontal gray lines flickering annoyingly across the screen, which is pretty much entirely taken up by this window. There's a big black X in the middle of the screen. How do I fix this? I got better results when I started X using startx. The only problem with this option is that I don't seem to have any form of cut-and-paste. The first few lines sent to the screen after I execute startx are Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-12 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard The mention of -clipboard above gave me the hope that cut paste would be possible, but I have not gotten it to work, neither between X applications, nor between an X application and a Windows application. Do I need to do anything special to get cut paste to work? Cut and paste in X is done in different ways depending on the application. In most cases (xterm, mozilla and others) it is sufficient to mark text to cut it and click the middle mouse button to paste it. Thanks. I'm aware of that, but still it doesn't work. kj
xwin produces flickery gray screen; cut/paste
Hi! I just installed Cygwin, including X, on my Windows2000 workstation. When I execute xwin, I get an awful-looking window, with horizontal gray lines flickering annoyingly across the screen, which is pretty much entirely taken up by this window. There's a big black X in the middle of the screen. How do I fix this? I got better results when I started X using startx. The only problem with this option is that I don't seem to have any form of cut-and-paste. The first few lines sent to the screen after I execute startx are Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-12 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard The mention of -clipboard above gave me the hope that cut paste would be possible, but I have not gotten it to work, neither between X applications, nor between an X application and a Windows application. Do I need to do anything special to get cut paste to work? Thanks! kynn
