Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

["Kevin Markle" <kmarkle at pbs dot org>]

Hello,

I'm unable to get my DISPLAY variable to work. I use my IP address
followed by:0.0. The message I get is that the server can't connect to
the x11 server? If you have any experience in this I would appreciate
the help.

"Chris Green" <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<20040102144403.GA4596@areti.co.uk>...
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> > 
> > > The trouble is that when I run 'xhost 127.0.0.1' in a cygwin 
> > > window on my win2k system I just get the error:-
> > >     xhost: unable to open display ""
> > 
> > that would be DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 xhost 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > But most likely you will have no access from windows. Run xhost from

> > the
> > session started via xdmcp.
> > 
> But if I run xhost in that session I will be setting xhost permissions

> on the Linux Slackware system which is most definitely not what is 
> required.
> 
> It seems very odd that xhost requires access to the local display in 
> order to work as you need xhost to set permission to acces the local 
> display - sort of catch 22.
> 
> If I open just a cygwin terminal window on my Win2k system I simply 
> can't run xhost at all.
> 
> E.G.:-
> 
>     $ xhost
>     xhost: Unable to open display ""
> 
>     $ export DISPLAY=192.168.13.25:0.0
>     $ xhost
>     Xlib: connection to 192.168.13.25:0.0 refused by server
>     Xlib: no protocol specified
> 
>     xhost: Unable to open display 192.168.13.25:0.0
> 
> So how can one ever run xhost (and thus xwinclip)?
> 
> > > What should the DISPLAY environment variable be set to for the 
> > > local display?  I'm used to setting it for remote systems but I 
> > > can't get the right value for this one.
> > 
> > Fot the local display this is 127.0.0.1:0 or :0
> > 
> Maybe my win2k set up is wonly but 127.0.0.1 won't work for me, the 
> actual IP address of 192.168.13.25 does work though.  However a second

> try seems to be OK, maybe I'd got into a mess before.  The 'catch 22' 
> above still applies though.
> 
> --
> Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
> 




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