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Re: Remote KDE with Cygwin X


Peter,

How are you starting Cygwin/X? It sounds like you are using startx, startxwin.sh, or startxwin.bat, all of which will start the server in "multi-window mode" which will crash if you try to run KDE remotely because both multi-window mode and KDE will be trying to run window managers at the same time when you can only run one at a time.

Please send in /tmp/XWin.log from one of these attempts so we can figure out the command line being passed to XWin.exe.

Harold

Peter Graf wrote:

Hello

I want to report a strange problem I have since yesterday
since I upgraded Cygwin X base to 4.3.0-9. I upgraded my entire cygwin installation to the version available yesterday.


I have a WinXP laptop and a linux server that has no monitor.
I have had this setup for over a year now, Cygwin X always worked perfectly for it, I have also not changed the KDE
on the server lately.


I run KDE remotely on my laptop when I use the Linux server by
- starting XWin.exe with one xterm inside on the laptop
- ssh'ing to the server: ssh -X -l <user> <server>
- starting KDE on the server: kde

After yesterday's upgrade I now have the strange effect
that launching and running the KDE hangs at various stages unless
I select some text from the initial xterm window with the mouse.

Like: KDE is running, I want to start Konqueror and click on it's
Icon, nothing happens, once I bring the xterm window, which I used
for ssh'ing to the server and starting the kde from, into the foreground and highlight some text in it with the mouse,
konqueror appears.


I only detected the workaround, because KDE hung during launch
and I wanted to highlight and copy/paste the messages from the
xterm window to a mail I wanted to send to this group.
All of a sudden the launch proceeded then hung again, .....

I somehow have the feeling the problem has something to do
with the clipboard, I do not know enough to really say :-(.

Maybe this post helps somebody figuring out the problem.
I can live with my "workaround" so far.

Greetings,

Peter

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