RE: Running remote window manager

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

You can run X & a xterm without a window manager. Most startx scripts
(includeing startx.bat) will run one automatically though.

Add the location of xhost to your path, or when you run it use
./xhost.exe (remember the local directory is not in your path in bash).

You should also edit startx.bat and remove the reference to *wm - the
window manager.

Rob
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy J. Massey [mailto:tmassey@modernmerchant.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2000 4:10 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Running remote window manager
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> In the Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO, it states that it is 
> possible to run a
> remote window manager.  (http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth-8.html) 
> Now *that* is something I want to do:  My Linux box's GNOME desktop on
> my NT machine?  That's cool...
> 
> I have a problem, though.  The only way that I can figure out to run
> xhost is from within the xterm spawned when the X server is 
> started.  I
> can't run xterm without a window manager, though (can I?), and seeing
> as you can't have more than one window manager, if I start the NT
> window manager, I can't run GNOME remotely.  A seeming catch-22.
> 
> Is there a way to run xhost from anywhere outside of the xterm?  I've
> tried starting it from the bash shell of Cygwin, but that 
> doesn't work.
>  Even when I'm in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory (where I can confirm
> that xhost.exe is located), when I type xhost (or xhost.exe) it tells
> me command not found.
> 
> How can I get around this?
> 
> Thank you once again for your help.  If you have any suggestions on
> things I can read so as not to bug you guys I would gladly do it.
> 
> Tim Massey
> 
> 
> 
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