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From: Paul <Paul.Domaskis@gmail.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Following update to XWin or xorg-server: changed syntax to get a xterm terminal window Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 03:11:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <loom.20150917T050707-26@post.gmane.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAMKht8jui05HnCu4a4vYXRo9by=hjH518BoMBmxrprvBAnAfhA@mail.gmail.com> Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 <at> gmail.com> writes: |On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Fergus Daly |<fergusd <at> frontier-science.co.uk> wrote: |> For ages I used |> XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow & |> xterm -display localhost:0.0 |> to get a xterm terminal. |> Following recent updates I get a fatal error: "Cannot establish any |> listening sockets." In the past, updates to XWin have sometimes led |> to similar difficulties, but I have always managed to iterate to a |> new successful joint syntax |> XWin <arguments> |> xterm <arguments> | By default, XWin 1.17 no longer listens on TCP sockets, only on unix | domain sockets. | https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-06/msg00003.html | However, "-nolisten local" disables unix domain sockets., | So to use unix domain sockets: | XWin -nolock -multiwindow & | xterm -display :0.0 | Or to keep using TCP sockets: | XWin -nolock -nolisten local -listen tcp -multiwindow & | xterm -display localhost:0.0 I found that I also had to rejig my ~/.startxwinrc. ~/.startxwinrc: --------------- xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources xterm -display :0.0 # xterm & exec sleep infinity -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-17 3:11 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2015-06-10 11:29 Fergus Daly 2015-06-10 11:37 ` Michael DePaulo 2015-09-17 3:11 ` Paul [this message]
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