Re: Remote KDE with Cygwin X

[Peter Graf <cygwinx at dfschwier dot de>]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 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.

I use my own custom version of startxwin.bat, 
the relevant lines are:

REM Startup the X Server.

start XWin -clipboard

REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e
/usr/bin/bash

run twm


I only added the "run twm" command after I figured that selecting text
in the xterm window would be a workaround. Because I needed some way
of getting to that window which is usually covered by the desktop. :-)

 

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


My XWin.log after the latest attempt with the .bat file above reads:

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.59
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -clipboard

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1600 h 1200
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1600 dwHeight: 1200
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits
per pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1600 h: 1200
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1600 h: 1200
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1166 1600
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1166 1600
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1594 h 1136 r 1594 l 0
b 1136 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface
winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface
winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 6376
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 6376
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1594
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24
bpp 32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
InitOutput - Returning.
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack
of shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000407" (00000407)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "German (Germany)" (407), type "4"
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "(null)"
Options = "(null)"
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from list!
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 797 568
winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted
winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned
winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
winClipboardProc - Hello
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the
display.
winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning.
ddxBeforeReset - Hello
winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT
message, exiting main loop.
ddxBeforeReset - Clipboard thread has exited.
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress




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