Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-05-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:45:46 -0700) On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:39 +0100, Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:18:15 -0700) I am not sure if this is the appropriate group. In addition, searching through these gmane newsgroups is not

RE: X Server cycling when trying to connect to gdm/dtlogin.

2007-05-01 Thread Chris Eagan
I am having the same problem...any solution? Thanks, Chris I'm trying to use Cygwin/X to connect to remote machines' gdm or dtlogin session managers. If I run: XWin.exe -query hostname I get the session login screen, can enter in my username and password and see the desktop clear and

display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

2007-05-01 Thread Jason May
Hello. I use Cygwin/X on my office computer to run a program called Cadence (using 24-bit display), but have limited Cygwin functionality when I use remote desktop to work from home. Displays are set to 32-bit on both computers, and the Windows XP remote-desktop protocol (RDP) version I am

Re: X Server cycling when trying to connect to gdm/dtlogin.

2007-05-01 Thread Holger Krull
Chris Eagan schrieb: I'm trying to use Cygwin/X to connect to remote machines' gdm or dtlogin session managers. XWin.exe -query hostname Does anything change if you use XWin -query numeric.ip.address -from numeric.ip.address ? And create and use a new user on your unix box to get a clean

Re: display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

2007-05-01 Thread Holger Krull
Jason May schrieb: I believe that Cygwin is detecting the optimal display settings on startup and determining it to be less than 32-bit when initiated through remote desktop. I would use the -depth command line option to manually set the depth to 32 bits, but this does not work with

Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Neville
On Tue, 1 May 2007 08:55:47 +0100, Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:45:46 -0700) On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:39 +0100, Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:18:15 -0700) I am not sure if this is the appropriate

Re: display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

2007-05-01 Thread Jason May
Thanks Holger for the response. - You can't set Xwins display depth larger than the Desktop it is running on. Usually that would be 16 Bit with rdp sessions. Did you ever check on the rdp Windows Desktop that you really get 32 Bit in Windows? Because i get 16 Bit even if i request 24