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Running remote window manager
- To: "cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Running remote window manager
- From: "Timothy J. Massey" <tmassey at modernmerchant dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:10:23 -0500
- Reply-To: "Timothy J. Massey" <tmassey at modernmerchant dot com>
Hello!
In the Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO, it states that it is possible to run a
remote window manager. (http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth-8.html)
Now *that* is something I want to do: My Linux box's GNOME desktop on
my NT machine? That's cool...
I have a problem, though. The only way that I can figure out to run
xhost is from within the xterm spawned when the X server is started. I
can't run xterm without a window manager, though (can I?), and seeing
as you can't have more than one window manager, if I start the NT
window manager, I can't run GNOME remotely. A seeming catch-22.
Is there a way to run xhost from anywhere outside of the xterm? I've
tried starting it from the bash shell of Cygwin, but that doesn't work.
Even when I'm in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory (where I can confirm
that xhost.exe is located), when I type xhost (or xhost.exe) it tells
me command not found.
How can I get around this?
Thank you once again for your help. If you have any suggestions on
things I can read so as not to bug you guys I would gladly do it.
Tim Massey