Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
Background: Switched from Exceed yesterday. Quickly realized that remote hosts couldn't contact local x server. xhost remote_mach solved that problem. Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost settings didn't persist. Spent half a day researching and experimenting xauth. My remote host was failing with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 error message. Eventually, I added -auth ~/.Xauthority to the command line that starts XWin.exe in startxwin.bat. That did the trick. Question: My question is this... Is there a way to add -auth ~/.Xauthority option to the startup of XWin.exe without modifying any of the provided files? Something like the ~/.cvsrc file. I'd like to make sure that the next time X-startup-scripts gets updated, I won't have to remember what I modified and go back and do it again. I tried using ~/.xserverrc but I'd prefer to be able to use startxwin.bat in my startup folder. I could submit a patch that would check for .Xauthority's existence and add the option when detected. If this is a suitable option, let me know and I'll submit it. Thanks in advance. -- Grant Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
Grant Mills wrote: Background: Switched from Exceed yesterday. Quickly realized that remote hosts couldn't contact local x server. xhost remote_mach solved that problem. Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost settings didn't persist. Spent half a day researching and experimenting xauth. My remote host was failing with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 error message. Eventually, I added -auth ~/.Xauthority to the command line that starts XWin.exe in startxwin.bat. That did the trick. Question: My question is this... Is there a way to add -auth ~/.Xauthority option to the startup of XWin.exe without modifying any of the provided files? Something like the ~/.cvsrc file. I'd like to make sure that the next time X-startup-scripts gets updated, I won't have to remember what I modified and go back and do it again. I tried using ~/.xserverrc but I'd prefer to be able to use startxwin.bat in my startup folder. I could submit a patch that would check for .Xauthority's existence and add the option when detected. If this is a suitable option, let me know and I'll submit it. ~/.xserverrc sounds like a perfectly good spot to me. It won't get changed out from under you in the next upgrade (whenever that is) like startxwin.bat. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
On 3/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Mills wrote: Background: Switched from Exceed yesterday. Quickly realized that remote hosts couldn't contact local x server. xhost remote_mach solved that problem. Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost settings didn't persist. Spent half a day researching and experimenting xauth. My remote host was failing with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 error message. Eventually, I added -auth ~/.Xauthority to the command line that starts XWin.exe in startxwin.bat. That did the trick. Question: My question is this... Is there a way to add -auth ~/.Xauthority option to the startup of XWin.exe without modifying any of the provided files? Something like the ~/.cvsrc file. I'd like to make sure that the next time X-startup-scripts gets updated, I won't have to remember what I modified and go back and do it again. I tried using ~/.xserverrc but I'd prefer to be able to use startxwin.bat in my startup folder. I could submit a patch that would check for .Xauthority's existence and add the option when detected. If this is a suitable option, let me know and I'll submit it. ~/.xserverrc sounds like a perfectly good spot to me. It won't get changed out from under you in the next upgrade (whenever that is) like startxwin.bat. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ I'm not that thrilled about using ~/.xserverrc because it is meant to start an alternate server from startx, not just provide extra options. -- Grant Mills -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat
On 3/7/07, Grant Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Mills wrote: Background: Switched from Exceed yesterday. Quickly realized that remote hosts couldn't contact local x server. xhost remote_mach solved that problem. Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost settings didn't persist. Spent half a day researching and experimenting xauth. My remote host was failing with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 error message. Eventually, I added -auth ~/.Xauthority to the command line that starts XWin.exe in startxwin.bat. That did the trick. Question: My question is this... Is there a way to add -auth ~/.Xauthority option to the startup of XWin.exe without modifying any of the provided files? Something like the ~/.cvsrc file. I'd like to make sure that the next time X-startup-scripts gets updated, I won't have to remember what I modified and go back and do it again. I tried using ~/.xserverrc but I'd prefer to be able to use startxwin.bat in my startup folder. I could submit a patch that would check for .Xauthority's existence and add the option when detected. If this is a suitable option, let me know and I'll submit it. ~/.xserverrc sounds like a perfectly good spot to me. It won't get changed out from under you in the next upgrade (whenever that is) like startxwin.bat. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ I'm not that thrilled about using ~/.xserverrc because it is meant to start an alternate server from startx, not just provide extra options. -- Grant Mills Argh!!! Nevermind. I was certain that my XAUTHORITY environment variable was set. It wasn't. What a great way to waste half a day. Sorry for the interruption. -- Grant Mills -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
