-xfree, so is free and works well. If you want to use XDMCP to
connect to a unix server only, you don't need a full cygwin install.
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 20:17, Robert Collins wrote:
You will also need to:
* Change the shared segment name, or you will break existing installs at
runtime.
* Change
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 22:27, Robert Collins wrote:
Sure. And a minimum cygwin install is all you'd get. Setup only installs
the bare minimum - the 'base' category by default. No compilers, no
'optional' components at all. And even they can be deselected (but not
be default).
Hmmm, I first
on another
system as well. I found that it was very hard to reduce the
size of the
install, as many things depend on many others.
Yes. The X install is relatively heavy. I was thinking that you can do
the following:
Setup your own setup.ini. In that include a package (say
XFree86-XDMCP-minimal) for your
contact with him.
Strangely enough, I was planning to start work on project again this month,
and perhaps even this weekend, with my first step being to do the script to
configure XDMCP access on a 'standard' linux distribution. My planned second
step was to then create a 'wizard' that would only
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:30 am, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
For example, MySQL use the cygwin dll for their windows
port (see http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html) but they are
using cygwin 1.3.9 not the current version. This could cause problems in
the future if someone does not keep their
Robert Collins wrote:
Yes. The X install is relatively heavy. I was thinking that you can do
the following:
Setup your own setup.ini. In that include a package (say
XFree86-XDMCP-minimal) for your cut-down X install, minus all the cygwin
infrastructure. DON'T include anything with a name
configuration files,
and any X libraries we wanted.
Strangely enough, I was planning to start work on project again this month,
and perhaps even this weekend, with my first step being to do the script to
configure XDMCP access on a 'standard' linux distribution.
Hehe, finding a standard linux distrib
At 11:01 AM 6/15/2002, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:30 am, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
For example, MySQL use the cygwin dll for their windows
port (see http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html) but they are
using cygwin 1.3.9 not the current version. This could cause problems
settings
correctly from registry, doesn't let the user specify a font server, and
has odd defaults for the XDMCP server to connect to :)
Make sure uninstall removes /tmp/* and other files created.
Include esd.exe from
http://www.kiss.taihaku.sendai.jp/~fuji/product/20001127/ , so
cygwin install.
Fonts included. To reduce size, we have the bare minimum fonts
included, but it can use fonts from within windows.
One option is using XDMCP is set a font server on the remote machine and
use the remote fonts.
What are the .a files? Are they linked from the .dlls
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Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 1:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#40875: Acknowledgement (Most icons not displayed in 32 bit
color mode using XDMCP from Cygwin/XFree86)
Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding KDE.
This is an automatically
Hi Harold,
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.
I guess there isn't that much changed in KDE 3.0 that would really explain
this behaviour. However, the change from KDE 2 to KDE 3 also implies a change
from Qt2 to Qt3, I don't know what exactly has changed in Qt3 pixmap handling
but
Wrong mailing list. Redirected.
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:33:33AM +0200, EXT / EUREKA LE CUNFF Laurent wrote:
Hello,
I do not manage to make function CygWin/XFree in XDMCP under Windows 98. The
Xfree window appears with the grayed bottom but that does not go further. I
does not obtain
Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is access from nonlocal machine allowed? Some distributions install
xdm/kdm/gdm in a configuration where only local clients are allowed
to connect.
I know that debian testing and RedHat 7.2 does this. My guess is that
all distributions does this for
I hav done a little experimenting and contrary to what I earlier believed
starting a xdmcp session against an aix server works with a standard aix
install
But there are differences in the configuration that makes it work sometime
and sometime not.
This works ALWAYS but is not recommended
]
Subject: Re: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
Hi all,
I try the -ac option from Pavel with XWin.
I am not able to get the french keyboard at login,
but just after, the xmodmap locally runned (in the local
script, not on the remote server) is perfectly running
and I get
Hi all,
I try the -ac option from Pavel with XWin.
I am not able to get the french keyboard at login,
but just after, the xmodmap locally runned (in the local
script, not on the remote server) is perfectly running
and I get the french keyboard.
So it is a part of the answear (since I
RedHat box
- Configure DISPLAY to point at W2K box
- Execute xterm (for instance)
That gets me a nice xterm running here on my W2K machine.
However, what I'd really like to do is an XDMCP logon to the aforementioned
RedHat box, so that I don't have to go through this procedure and I can get
the full
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andy Lemmon wrote:
I just get the default X black-and-white checked background like it's
waiting for the other machine to respond. I never get the logon screen from
the RedHat box.
Is access from nonlocal machine allowed? Some distributions install
xdm/kdm/gdm in a
Andy,
Check this out and make sure that Hummingbird's SOCKS is not installed:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-04/msg00467.html
Harold
Andy Lemmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Yes, I believe nonlocal access is permitted to the RedHat server. I could
access the same RH server
Harold,
Thanks for your help. I've found the problem. My RedHat machine had been
brought down to runlevel 3; I must have done that weeks ago and forgotten,
it's in a building half a mile from my office. Anyway, after bringing xdm
back up, the XDMCP logon screen appeared immediately.
Sorry
by: Subject: Re: Unable to get french
keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
cygwin-xfree-owner@
cygwin.com
2) No one currently on the project seems to have both the time and
knowledge
to provide such internationalization support (some have the time, others
have the knowledge, but no one seems to have both :)
Hi,
I think it would be sufficient to make XWin not to crash during startup
when
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Harold Hunt wrote:
Frederic,
Well, after about a week of discussion on this topic I'd just like to
summarize the project's standpoint on this issue:
1) We would love to have great internationalization support in
Cygwin/XFree86.
XFree86 has i18n support. XKB was build
with XDMCP connexion on AIX
Hi,
I try to use Cygwin-Xfree to connect to an AIX system with a X11
client session.
The connection works fine (with the -kb option as the FAQ said),
but it is in english keyboard, and of course, I have a french one.
So the question is :
- is there a way to get a french
:
m.com Subject: Re: Unable to get french
keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
Hi,
the xmodmap work only AFTER your login.
No, it doesn't. It works BEFORE login too
I haven't tried, but is the +kb option solve the pre-login keyboard ?
It's not with AIX, it doesn't work.
Pavel
I have just came across a problem when connected to KDE 3 running on a
Redhat 7.2 box via XDMCP. While trying to get my uk keyboard to work I
connected this time using the command:
startxwin.exe -query server name
instead of my usual XWin -query server name which works fine.
everything
Scott,
startxwin.exe -query server name
I don't understand, there is no startxwin.exe file distributed with
Cygwin/XFree86. You must be talking about startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh,
but neither of those can be passed parameters. What are you talking
about
Failed assertion, fds_on_hold
was being made.
The workaround that you suggested works a treat.
Cheers.
Scott.
- Original Message -
From: Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Scott Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: RE: XDMCP error
Scott,
startxwin.exe -query
I'm sorry, but it seems it's not a good answear.
Once again :
- I cannot change the configuration of the AIX Server
(the main reason is that in fact, I have MANY servers,
some AIX, some Solaris, some Linux,...)
- I just can change the local configuration, that is to
say the client for XDMCP
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com cc: Franz Wolfhagen
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Sent by: Subject: Re: Unable to get french
keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
cygwin
get a xmodmap.fr file and add the following line (after the xwin command)
in the start shell :
xmodmap location of your xmodmap file/xmodmap.fr
Trust me - it works - you can also transfer a xmodmap.fr file to your AIX
machines and run the same command on them - X doesn't care if you run the
in the same way
(XDMCP client), I get correctly my french keyboard.
Frédéric
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I think all us from europe should try to get together and get the NLS
thinngs to work on top of the great job the primarily done by Harold - this
would really make a breakthrough on this side of the Atlantic ;-) - if I
find some time I will try to sketch out the basics
We could use a
: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
Hi,
I try to use Cygwin-Xfree to connect to an AIX system with a X11
client session.
The connection works fine (with the -kb option as the FAQ said),
but it is in english keyboard, and of course, I have a french one.
So the question
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To: frederic bregier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
Personally i use xinit to launch my Xserver
and i put this line in my .xinitrc :
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/setxkbmap -rules
Hi all,
I'm not using XDMCP but I'm connecting to a AIX machine thru an x relay, and
I also have some weird behavior with my keyboard (I mean, I need to press
shift key to have num pad and 'accents' are not work) but all the other keys
are working fine (I beleive it could be possible to change
(XDMCP client), I get correctly my french keyboard.
Frédéric
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, since AIX needs that you specify -kb (no xkb support
in XDMCP), then I was wondering if there is a way to compile
the XWin.exe with the french option by default,
that is to say, whatever the X11 server I am connecting to,
I will use a french keyboard (or another for other people).
I saw
.
This does not happen when I login from the console on the linux box and
run abiword on the linux box, so the problem is not on the linux box.
Also this does not happen when I login with xdmcp to the linux box from
another linux box, and run abiword remotely.
Any ideas how I might fix this?
Thanks
Hope this helps
Jeb
- Original Message -
From: Lars Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:04 PM
Subject: xdmcp font problem
When I connect to a remote Linux box from my cygwin/xfree PC, and run
abiword through the connection, abiword crashes
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
1) XWin insists on the existance of a /tmp/.X11-unix folder, are there any
commandline options, or compile options I can use to change this (so I can
put it in %TEMP%/.X11-unix).
Can't remember having seen such a feature. AFAIR, the server code (at
]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Wilkins
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86
Hi,
I've put together a very simple frontend to launch XWin with when used to
connect to XDMCP. The front end will handle passing font paths (and will
convert from
Thanks, but this is kind of aimed at people who only want Cygwin/XFree for
just the XDMCP stuff (ie to get to another machine), which, from watching
the list, seems to be quite a few people.
Thanks
jeremy
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jeremy Wilkins
:58 PM
Subject: Re: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
1) XWin insists on the existance of a /tmp/.X11-unix folder, are there
any
commandline options, or compile options I can use to change this (so I
can
put it in %TEMP%/.X11-unix).
Can't
know either C or
makefiles so I was probably looking past it or in the wrong place).
Thanks
Jeb
- Original Message -
From: Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jeremy Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: cygx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: XDMCP client using
Matt,
Are you telling me that you had several failed Cygwin/XFree86 launch
attempts and you happened to never reboot (or at least to start out with a
command line that would fail after rebooting) thus you were never able to
connect to your remote machine via XDMCP? Man, that is some bad luck
to never reboot (or at least to start out with a
command line that would fail after rebooting) thus you were never able to
connect to your remote machine via XDMCP? Man, that is some bad luck.
So, tell me now if you can connect to your remote machine via XDMCP on
display 0. Is everything normal
port 6000, for future reference.
Thanks,
Harold
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Bradford
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:18 AM
To: Harold Hunt
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
Harold,
Sorry
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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
Matt,
It's good to know that something is listening on port 6000; however, I
don't
think that it is Windows XP's Remote Assistance feature. The only port
number I can find mentioned with documents on that feature
Hi all,
I have a small problem with XFree 4.2:
I have two screens on my WinNT SP6a with a screen resolution of 2560x1024.
When I open via XDMCP a linux kde window, it opens at 1280x1024, that is
absolutely ok, but when the mouse goes down and the hidden task bar comes
up, the kde window
Sorry, found the answer:
Sven Opitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in a9f57u$jig$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:a9f57u$jig$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I tried XWin 0 1280 1024 -query ipaddress, but that didn't work at all
I changed this line to XWin -screen 0 1280 1024 -query ipaddress
Thanx anyway
Sven
copy the resulting .Xauthority file to Red Hat 7.2 machine.
One thing to try is turn on debugging in the XDMCP server. I don't know
how this is done with kdm. xdm has a -debug flag.
- Ian
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Bradford
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 11:04 PM
To: Ian Burrell
Cc: Harold Hunt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
I have finally solved the problem. However, this raises another
question
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
I have finally solved the problem. However, this raises another
question...
The solution by the way was to add :1 to the Xwin.exe. Don't know why it
worked, but it worked like a charm. So then the question is... why? :-P
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Matthew Bradford wrote:
start X on my winXP box I see that kdm starts and then it times out
eventually. I can connect to this server with another Linux box via XDMCP
What do you mean with times out?
bye
ago
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variable it
refuses the connection no matter what.
- Matt
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Matthew
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
Just that a new version of kdm is spawned and then eventually it
dies. I am
assuming this is a timeout because it cannot connect to the X
server. (see
my second message on this subject) To sum up, I can run remote X programs
when using
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To: Matthew Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: cygx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: RE: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
Matt,
Did we already ask if you have multiple network cards in your Windows
machine, or any token ring cards?
Harold
-Original Message-
From
on it that is the issue. I
just have no idea how to fix it.
- Matt
- Original Message -
From: Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: cygx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: RE: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
Matt,
No you haven't asked
To: Harold Hunt
Cc: cygx
Subject: Re: XDMCP and Redhat 7.2
Harold,
First, thank you very much for your time and attention. Now onto the
results of your last email:
I've tried that before, but I tried it again just to be sure...
and still no
go.
did you get my previous email talking about
the resulting .Xauthority file to Red Hat 7.2 machine.
One thing to try is turn on debugging in the XDMCP server. I don't know
how this is done with kdm. xdm has a -debug flag.
- Ian
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http://www.znark.com/
If you are using IPX, and I think you have told me so, the Novell client
resets the order for the name resolution . Usually the timeout is about 1-2
minutes. Could you try to uninstall the whole novell client with IPX on a
client?
I think I've tracked down the problem to a ATI graphic card
Do you use a novell logon?
If so I?m not sure if it is the problem, but could you try to resolve the
names of both computers?
Try to logon onto your linux and try to resolve the other computer name, and
also the other way (logon on client try to resolve the linux box)
best regards,
Darko
Hi,
Are you connected through dialup, or some sort of WAN? X doesnt work too well
across long distances... even if there is a lot of bandwidth... it's a latency
thing.
B
--- Palic, Darko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you use a novell logon?
If so I?m not sure if it is the problem, but could you
From: Brian Genisio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:10:02 -0800 (PST)
Are you connected through dialup, or some sort of WAN? X doesnt work too well
across long distances... even if there is a lot of bandwidth... it's a latency
.
I have a linux server (Mandrake 8.1) and several Windows clients
running cygwin/xfree-4.1 (plus one linux client). On some of the
win98 clients,
XDMCP is *extremely* slow so it literary takes minutes to get the
login screen
and log in. They all are in my /etc/hosts file, they
seem to have
Hello,
sorry if this is a bit off-topic but I was unable to find information in
the mailing-list archives/Howtos.
I have a linux server (Mandrake 8.1) and several Windows clients
running cygwin/xfree-4.1 (plus one linux client). On some of the win98 clients,
XDMCP is *extremely* slow so
:
cygwin-xfree-owner@Subject: XDMCP AIX 5L : no keyboard
cygwin.com
Patrick,
One question for starters: can you start a local Cygwin/XFree86 session
(without XDMCP) on the machines that will not connect with XDMCP?
Harold
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Jaromin
Sent: Friday, February 08
Hi,
I have not watched the previous posts, but have you tried to start the
XServer XFree without XDMCP? And then to connect via telnet + export
Display to
your host? (or even easier with ssh -X) Is this possible?
Thanks - yes, this works quite well. If there's no way to do it via XDMCP
Darryl forgot to cc the mailing list. No biggie.
Harold
-Original Message-
From: Darryl Wagoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:38 AM
To: Harold Hunt
Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k RH 7.2
Harold and the group,
If at all possible
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Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k RH 7.2
Darryl,
According to the Linux XMDCP HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/gdm.html), the port number is
177, not 117.
I don't know what else to tell you. Try using kdm instead.
Harold
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Harold Hunt wrote:
Darryl,
If at all possible, as a diagnostic test you should connect only the two
computers in question together on a seperate test network, making sure to
[snip]
A simpler suggestion:
telnet to port 6000 of the windows machine from the linux server.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:03 PM
To: Harold Hunt
Cc: Darryl Wagoner; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k RH 7.2
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Harold Hunt wrote
[xdmcp]
Enable=1
but all the other options have the Boolean true so I followed suit.
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
I did do a netstat to make sure xdm was listening on the correct port.
Is it possible that Xwin.exe is sending to a different port?
thanks
--
Darryl Wagoner - WA1GON
Your phone line can
Darryl,
According to the Linux XMDCP HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/gdm.html), the port number is
177, not 117.
I don't know what else to tell you. Try using kdm instead.
Harold
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:25 PM
To: Darryl Wagoner; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k RH 7.2
Darryl,
According to the Linux XMDCP HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Matthew Donald wrote:
Hi,
There is a problem when using xwinclip with an X server which connects to a
remote host using XDMCP.
Basically the sequence is this:
1. Execute XWin :0 -query some.host.system. Initially, the authorisation
file contains no records, so
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
This is wrong. 127.0.0.1 is the ip adress for localhost. On every computer,
127.0.0.1 points to itself. Say you have a windows host with ip 192.168.26.201
and a unix host with ip 192.168.26.202, they can only communicate with these
ip adresses.
--- Matthew Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
There is a problem when using xwinclip with an X server which connects to a
remote host using XDMCP.
Basically the sequence is this:
1. Execute XWin :0 -query some.host.system. Initially, the authorisation
file contains no records, so
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To: Matthew Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: xwinclip authorisation problem with remote hosts using XDMCP
What is your DISPLAY variable set to? I am a bit confused, since one
output
talks about a server going to 127.0.0.1:3.0
help me.
Roger Gardner
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Telefon:06145-506 590
$ netstat -u -a | grep xdm
udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:*
OR
$ netstat -u -a -n | grep 177
udp0 0 0.0.0.0:177 0.0.0.0:*
If you don't get these, then you don't have xdmcp listening, no matter
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