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Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?
- From: Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:04:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?
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- Reply-to: chris dot green at isbd dot co dot uk
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:26:45PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > Do I then need to run a *local* cygwin window on my win2k system and
> > run 'xwinclip'? In that case what will running 'xhost 127.0.0.1' on
> > the remote system do? (I know what xhost does, I just don't see what
> > it has to do with running xwinclip).
>
> The xserver running on the windows host is setup to accept only clients
> from the session started by xdm. xhost now tells the server (which is
> on the windows computer) to allow connections from local (to the xserver)
> clients.
>
> This means the xhost 127.0.0.1 tells the xserver to accept connections
> from the windows host. After that you can start xwinclip on the windows
> host.
>
The trouble is that when I run 'xhost 127.0.0.1' in a cygwin window on
my win2k system I just get the error:-
xhost: unable to open display ""
What should the DISPLAY environment variable be set to for the local
display? I'm used to setting it for remote systems but I can't get
the right value for this one.
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)