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* new start method (again?)
@ 2016-11-24 14:46 David Lee Lambert
2016-11-24 15:15 ` Jon Turney
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From: David Lee Lambert @ 2016-11-24 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree; +Cc: davidleelambert
So I have several Win7 or Win10 PCs with a small set of users who use them,
I had modified the "XWin Server" shortcut by making it a per-user start
menu item that would start each user's server at a different display number.
Since some recent update, those shortcuts no longer work. Here's the error
message...
A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Unrecognized option: /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056
Please open the logfile for more information.
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.18.4.0
Contact: cygwin@cygwin.com
Package: varsion 1.18.4-1 built 2016-07-22
XWin was started with the following command-line:
/usr/bin/XWin :3 -multiwindow -listen -auth /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056
Screenshot at http://bit.ly/2gEeJkZ .
Also, when I do start X, Win32 PuTTY doesn't seem to be able to forward
remote programs to it any more. PuTTY does have an option to point to
a ".Xauthority" file, but that doesn't seem to help.
I sw some threads a few months ago that sounded similar, but reading through
them so far I don't see a concise solution.
Advice?
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* Re: new start method (again?)
2016-11-24 14:46 new start method (again?) David Lee Lambert
@ 2016-11-24 15:15 ` Jon Turney
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jon Turney @ 2016-11-24 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree; +Cc: David Lee Lambert
On 24/11/2016 14:46, David Lee Lambert wrote:
> So I have several Win7 or Win10 PCs with a small set of users who use them,
> I had modified the "XWin Server" shortcut by making it a per-user start
> menu item that would start each user's server at a different display number.
> Since some recent update, those shortcuts no longer work. Here's the error
> message...
>
> A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
>
> Unrecognized option: /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056
>
> Please open the logfile for more information.
>
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.18.4.0
> Contact: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Package: varsion 1.18.4-1 built 2016-07-22
>
> XWin was started with the following command-line:
>
> /usr/bin/XWin :3 -multiwindow -listen -auth /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056
Since xinit-1.3.4-5/xserver-1.17.0-1 the -listen option is implemented
in Xwin, not in startx, and now takes a protocol name.
So I think you need to change '-listen' to '-listen tcp' in your shortcut.
> Screenshot at http://bit.ly/2gEeJkZ .
>
> Also, when I do start X, Win32 PuTTY doesn't seem to be able to forward
> remote programs to it any more. PuTTY does have an option to point to
> a ".Xauthority" file, but that doesn't seem to help.
>
> I sw some threads a few months ago that sounded similar, but reading through
> them so far I don't see a concise solution.
I guess [1],[2] are the threads you refer to.
I'm afraid there is no simple solution, currently.
I guess what's needed is a patch to startx(|win) to use a deterministic
.serverauth filename, or to add an option to disable the use of an
authority file with the -auth option.
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2015-02/msg00075.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00358.html
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