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Re: Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!
- From: "Keith D. Tyler" <keith at keithtyler dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:29:01 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Dawson, David W was recently quoted as saying...
>
> When the X-server detects that the last client connection terminates, the
> server does a full reset.
>
> xhost is NOT a persistent connection.
> As soon as the xhost program completes it's job (telling the X-Server host
> to change the permissions), the xhost program closes it's connection with
> the X-server. Since (in your case) it is the ONLY connection at that time,
> the X-server resets and promptly eradicates the xhost setting.
>
> You need to open a persistent connection first: an xterm, a window manager,
> xclock, something....
... or run XWin.exe with the -noreset option.
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