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From: "Kevin Markle" <kmarkle@pbs.org> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:57:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <EE81FC4A94703A46976D9DF51EF1018604B0DC81@2kexmb.hq.corp.pbs.org> (raw) 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) > We're shaking things up with BOOHBAH! All new on PBS KIDS. Catch it weekdays, beginning January 19th. pbskids.org/boohbah
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-12 19:57 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2004-01-12 19:57 Kevin Markle [this message] 2004-01-12 20:00 ` Harold L Hunt II -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2003-12-31 23:21 Chris Green [not found] ` <3FF34EE3.9070300@msu.edu> 2004-01-01 15:37 ` Chris Green 2004-01-01 18:26 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 14:04 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 14:33 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 14:44 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 15:20 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 17:27 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 18:03 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 19:33 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 19:49 ` Thomas Dickey 2004-01-02 20:15 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 20:56 ` Thomas Dickey 2004-01-02 21:33 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-01-02 21:40 ` Thomas Dickey 2004-01-02 21:44 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-01-02 22:50 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 16:10 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 18:00 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 18:28 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-01-02 18:50 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 19:20 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-01-02 22:50 ` Chris Green 2004-01-02 20:13 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-02 22:43 ` Chris Green 2004-01-03 11:00 ` Alexander Gottwald
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