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Re: Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!
- From: Kercso Jozsef <jozsefke at freemail dot hu>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:47:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi!
> 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.
Yes, that was the problem, thanks.
Best regards,
Jozsef Kercso