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From: Sam Edge <sam.edgeZZZ@lineone.net>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Clipboard configuration
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <o2rsvvs2gl2o7f71c7j4bcp9udf623umev@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFD8C8B.4080408@msu.edu>
Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in
<3FFD8C8B.4080408@msu.edu>
in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:59:55 -0500:
> [Sam Edge wrote:]
> > Most (remote) display managers turn on X authentication and prevent
> > the internal clipboard client from connecting to its own Cygwin/X
> > server. This results in the client wasting its time doing it's
> > start-up retries. This isn't a huge waste - more a niggle.
>
> Really... huh... I guess that's why I call GenerateAuthorization within
> the server to create an MIT MAGIC COOKIE, then I call XSetAuthorization
> in the clipboard thread to pass that cookie to the server when using
> Xdmcp? :)
Bugger. For some reason I was running an older version of Xwin.exe
when I checked. Sorry.
> You must not have been reading the change logs too closely :)
You've found me out! ;-)
Anyway. As you were, gang. (And thanks again for a thoughoughly
excellent piece of software.)
Regards,
--
Sam Edge
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-08 13:48 Øyvind Harboe
2004-01-08 15:00 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-08 16:39 ` Sam Edge
2004-01-08 16:54 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-08 17:00 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-09 9:00 ` Sam Edge [this message]
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