From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8433 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 14:04:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8425 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 14:04:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.mail.areti.net) (193.109.192.70) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 14:04:48 -0000 Received: from halkidiki.areti.com (root@halkidiki.areti.com [193.109.192.71]) by relay.mail.areti.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Areti-4.0.0R) with ESMTP id i02E4leZ008459 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:04:47 GMT Received: (from chris@localhost) by halkidiki.areti.com (8.11.7-20030925/8.11.7) id i02E4l504458 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:04:47 GMT Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:04:00 -0000 From: Chris Green To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? Message-ID: <20040102140446.GA4425@areti.co.uk> Reply-To: chris.green@isbd.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <20031231221603.GA320@areti.co.uk> <3FF34EE3.9070300@msu.edu> <20040101153702.GB1971@areti.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:26:45PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > > Do I then need to run a *local* cygwin window on my win2k system and > > run 'xwinclip'? In that case what will running 'xhost 127.0.0.1' on > > the remote system do? (I know what xhost does, I just don't see what > > it has to do with running xwinclip). > > The xserver running on the windows host is setup to accept only clients > from the session started by xdm. xhost now tells the server (which is > on the windows computer) to allow connections from local (to the xserver) > clients. > > This means the xhost 127.0.0.1 tells the xserver to accept connections > from the windows host. After that you can start xwinclip on the windows > host. > The trouble is that when I run 'xhost 127.0.0.1' in a cygwin window on my win2k system I just get the error:- xhost: unable to open display "" What should the DISPLAY environment variable be set to for the local display? I'm used to setting it for remote systems but I can't get the right value for this one. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)