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xwinclip & startxdmcp.bat questions/problems
- From: Jay Smith <jay at JaySmith dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:35:42 -0500
- Subject: xwinclip & startxdmcp.bat questions/problems
- Organization: Jay Smith and Associates
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Okay, I used the 'rcn' mirror to get xwinclip (and updated other stuff).
[It sure would be nice if we knew which mirrors to use -- without having to
look at every one.]
I changed the command in *my own script* (startxwinJSA.bat), which had
worked up to this point, to read:
start XWin -once -nodecoration -query jsa.jaysmith.com
start xwinclip.exe
(My own script (startxwinJSA.bat) did a bunch of extra logging to see where
errors were occuring, etc.)
That did *not* work; I got no login whereas I had previously. So, I had to
use the startxdmcp.bat script (given at bottom of this message) and added
the above command changes to it. I am not sure if startxdmcp.bat came with
the XFree stuff or where it came from (it is possible that my systems guy
came up with it, but I doubt it).
Apparently running 'start Xwin' in some other script causes
'startxdmcp.bat' to run so stuff was running twice???
Anyway, the problem now is that:
a) I am still (same as before this upgrade) left with a DOS window for the
startxdmcp that has to be manually closed. Annoying, but not terrible.
b) I am additionally now left with *another* DOS window for xwinclip. When
I try to close it, it says that the program will terminate. It is not
desirable to have it there because I normally already run with 6-10 Windows
windows running and the task bar is pretty full. There are tons of
"error" messages in the xwinclip DOS window (but the copy/paste is working
fine).
c) Harold mentioned "restarting" xwinclip. I have not been able to find
any instructions on how to do this. The xwinclip readme does not cover
that. Please advise.
Thanks for your help. Sorry to be a pain, but to the non-tech user some of
this is tough to parse out.
Jay
===== startxdmcp.bat ======
@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET REMOTE_HOST=192.168.1.10
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
REM Cleanup after last run.
if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
:CLEANUP-FINISH
if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix
REM Startup the X Server and attempt to connect to a remote XDM server.
if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto OS_NT
REM Windows 95/98/Me
echo startxdmcp.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me
goto STARTUP
:OS_NT
REM Windows NT/2000/XP
echo startxdmcp.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP
:STARTUP
start XWin -once -nodecoration -query jsa.jaysmith.com
start xwinclip.exe