running gftp remotely crashes Xwin

2003-07-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
I have a reproducable error that I just discovered. I run Cygwin on a Win2000 system and connect to my FreeBSD 5.1 system at home over SSH v2 tunnelling. I run X apps remotely using Xwin -multiwindow. For the most part, things have worked great. I just tried running gftp (2.0.14 installed from

XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-14 Thread msg
Greetings: Just reporting progress on making a working XDM for Cygwin/XFree86 to manage remote displays: I now have XDM working to provide a greeter dialog, authenticate the 'root' user (who has setuid privs on the host) and spawn the .xsession (in my case startup an rdesktop session). Very