Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>]

Kevin,

Wait for the new XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-39 release to show up on your local 
mirror, install it, then just use the '-clipboard' command-line 
parameter to XWin.exe and forget about xhost and xwinclip.

Please report if/when you are successful.

Harold

Kevin Markle wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm unable to get my DISPLAY variable to work. I use my IP address
> followed by:0.0. The message I get is that the server can't connect to
> the x11 server? If you have any experience in this I would appreciate
> the help.
> 
> "Chris Green" <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:<20040102144403.GA4596@areti.co.uk>...
> 
>>On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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 ""
>>>
>>>that would be DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 xhost 127.0.0.1
>>>
>>>But most likely you will have no access from windows. Run xhost from
> 
> 
>>>the
>>>session started via xdmcp.
>>>
>>
>>But if I run xhost in that session I will be setting xhost permissions
> 
> 
>>on the Linux Slackware system which is most definitely not what is 
>>required.
>>
>>It seems very odd that xhost requires access to the local display in 
>>order to work as you need xhost to set permission to acces the local 
>>display - sort of catch 22.
>>
>>If I open just a cygwin terminal window on my Win2k system I simply 
>>can't run xhost at all.
>>
>>E.G.:-
>>
>>    $ xhost
>>    xhost: Unable to open display ""
>>
>>    $ export DISPLAY=192.168.13.25:0.0
>>    $ xhost
>>    Xlib: connection to 192.168.13.25:0.0 refused by server
>>    Xlib: no protocol specified
>>
>>    xhost: Unable to open display 192.168.13.25:0.0
>>
>>So how can one ever run xhost (and thus xwinclip)?
>>
>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>Fot the local display this is 127.0.0.1:0 or :0
>>>
>>
>>Maybe my win2k set up is wonly but 127.0.0.1 won't work for me, the 
>>actual IP address of 192.168.13.25 does work though.  However a second
> 
> 
>>try seems to be OK, maybe I'd got into a mess before.  The 'catch 22' 
>>above still applies though.
>>
>>--
>>Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
>>
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