From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7457 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2003 21:27:07 -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 7449 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 21:27:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys06.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.106) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2003 21:27:06 -0000 Received: from m21a79bd8.tmodns.net ([216.155.167.33] helo=msu.edu) by sys06.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.10 #3) (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) id 1AUBrL-000JRG-00 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:27:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD78F98.5060705@msu.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:30:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running xhost from Cygwin Bash Shell.. References: <3FD78907.1030006@klasca.com> In-Reply-To: <3FD78907.1030006@klasca.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 List-Id: What you described is by design: the server resets after the last client (xhost in this case) disconnects. You have to be running at least one local client to keep this from happening, as you discovered. Harold Jason Kalin wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the latest Cygwin release. I'm setting up to display my remote > linux desktop on my Win2k box. > Running inside of the Cygwin Bash Shell, I start XWin(xwin -screen 0 > 1400 1050&) with no local > applications. When I then run 'xhost +' from the bash shell, the X > server windows flashes and restarts. > Even though 'xhost +' printed 'access control disabled, ..', since the X > server is restarting the xhost + > change is nullified. > > It seems I can work around this if I start just one window local to > Cygwin before running 'xhost +'. It > doesn't seem to matter what the window is: xterm, xclock, whatever. > Then when I run 'xhost +' next > the X server window doesn't flash/restart, and the 'xhost +' effect of > 'access control disabled, ..' has taken place > and I am able to remotely start applications from my linux box > connecting to the Cygwin X Server. > > Am I violating any rules by this process, is this a known or unknown issue? > > Thanks, Jason Kalin >