Re: Thanks and a question

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Greg,

Just edit startxdmcp.bat (or copy startwin.bat, comment out the line 
that starts xterm, and remove the -multiwindow parameter) and name it 
"foohost.bat".  Leave it in /usr/X11R6/bin.  Then, create a shortcut to 
that batch file with Windows Explorer (note: you can then change the 
icon for the shortcut and point it to the icon in XWin.exe).  Then, copy 
and paste that shortcut on your desktop.  Everything will work fine. 
This is the method that I always use.

Harold

Greg Freemyer wrote:

> Harold,
>
> Your work on the clipboard with xdmcp capability is greatly
> appreciated.  
>
> > From my minimal testing it works great.  
>
> Now that the startup batch script can be simplified to a one liner, I
> want to directly invoke "Xwin -query" from my desktop without first
> launching a bash console.
>
> ie. I currently launch a bash script, then run my batch script.  It
> would be nice to instead just double click an icon on my desktop.
>
> I have setup a shortcut to XWin.exe on my desktop, but it is not
> working.
>
> Currently I am getting an error about a missing DLL.  Unfortunately I
> need dlls from both /cygwin/bin and /cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin, so just
> changing the startup directory is not quite enough.
>
> Is there a recommended way to get this to work?  
>
> ie. Adding a shortcut (or a cygwin hardlink) to the cygcygipc-2.dll in
> X11R6/bin 
>
>
> Thanks Again
> Greg