On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:12:10PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 13:28, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Harold L Hunt II wrote : > > > For all practical purposes, -clipboard does not work when using XDMCP. > > > Is there any change about ? > > > > use xwinclip. > > > > > > NP: Letzte Instanz - Glockenrequiem > > I saw this and the thread with Chris Green, and like Chris I still > don'know what to do. > > Is there a write-up that explicitely describes the setup and use of > xwinclip with xdmcp? > I have finally got it working, my start up .BAT file to run an xdmcp connection is as follows:-
SET DISPLAY=192.168.13.25:0.0 SET REMOTE_HOST=192.168.13.1 SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH% REM Cleanup after last run. if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 :CLEANUP-FINISH if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix echo startxdmcp.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP start /B XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% sleep 10 start /B xwinclip That sleep between starting XWin and xwinclip seems to be necessary but now it does seem to work reasonably reliably. I have fixed IP addresses for the machines on my home network so the 192.168.13.25 will always be the same for the win2k machine. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])