From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 126729 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2015 03:11:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 126680 invoked by uid 89); 17 Sep 2015 03:11:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,LIKELY_SPAM_BODY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 03:11:48 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcPbr-0005MI-S1 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:11:44 +0200 Received: from 206-47-31-249.dsl.ncf.ca ([206.47.31.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:11:43 +0200 Received: from Paul.Domaskis by 206-47-31-249.dsl.ncf.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:11:43 +0200 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Paul 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 Message-ID: References: <9D9AC45310887B40A7245734E850FBE1256D1D45@FS-MX02.frontier.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 Michael DePaulo gmail.com> writes: |On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Fergus Daly | 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 |> xterm | 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/