Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-09-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
David, Please do not send Cygwin-related questions by private e-mail. All Cygwin questions should be sent to the appropriate Cygwin mailing list (see http://cygwin.com/lists.html). I have forwarded this question to the appropriate list, and set the Reply-To: accordingly. FYI, you can both post

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, Each user needs a unique display number, which is specified as N in the following: XWin :N Such as: XWin :0 (default display zero) XWin :1 (display one) You can either hard-code these in startup scripts for each user, or you can help us with the feature that automatically assigns

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the assigned display number back to the shell from which XWin was launched so that X programs can know the correct display to connect to. Why not have XWin write its display number to a file in /var/run, e.g.,

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the assigned display number back to the shell from which XWin was launched so that X programs can know the correct display to connect to. Why not have XWin write its display number to a file in /var/run,

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the assigned display number back to the shell from which XWin was launched so that X programs can know the correct display to connect to. Why not have

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the assigned display number back to the shell from which XWin was launched so that X programs can know the correct display to connect

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the assigned display number back to the shell from which XWin was launched so that

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the assigned display number back to the shell from which XWin

Re: W2K Terminal Services and multiple users running X

2004-03-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, ... but the true difficulty in that is communicating the