From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98555 invoked by alias); 1 Jun 2015 16:52:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 98536 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jun 2015 16:52:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:52:47 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B939380690 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:52:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:52:45 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [31.51.205.195]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 59257C0004F; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:49:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <556C8D28.8080901@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:52:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: matt@horwood.biz Subject: Re: 1.17.1-4 xorg-server documentation update References: <5560EDC4.3020906@horwood.biz> In-Reply-To: <5560EDC4.3020906@horwood.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-06/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 On 23/05/2015 22:14, Matthew Horwood wrote: > I have been trying to connect to a raspberry PI over XDMCP, but have > been having issues getting it to work. > > After looking at both the cygwin/X and raspberry PI sites, I did a > search for 'lightdm connecting to xserver windows' and found a post that > suggested using VcXsrv. As it uses an option of -from that seems to > work, so I have tried it with cygwin/X and also got connected. > > It would seem your User's Guide needs to be updated, it needs to include > the -from option when making XDMCP connections. > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26000/how-to-cygwin-xwin-query-an-ubuntu-11-10-xserver Hi, Thanks for pointing this out. I have added a mention of that option to the XDMCP section of the UG. But it should not be the case that the option is always required. It should only be needed when the host has multiple network interfaces and the right one isn't selected, for whatever reason. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple