From: "Mark Vovchuk" <Mark@DTSOFT.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: Mouse/keyboard emulation
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:51:05 -0400
I have been trying to use Cygwin, at least in part, as an X server on
top of a Windows install to be able to execute programs from a UNIX
server and have them appear locally. The application I have been
specifically attempting to do so with is Eclipse (motif for HP-UX).
Just about every other application that I have run has been able to take
keyboard and mouse input from the Windows machine with no problems.
However, when I run Eclipse, the Java based GUI will launch after a
short time, however it will be a dead screen with no ability to click,
move focus or execute any commands. In this attempt, I also tried to
display a full Xwindows (CDE on HP-UX 11.0) session. This did work once
I was able to sort out the X font server issue I encountered initially.
I was able to control the window when displaying the full X session. My
boss was able to get it to work completely the way we wanted with
another product, however that was a demo of software that is far to
expensive for us to purchase.
This is what I tried to do concerning displaying only the application
remotely to my Windows desktop from the UNIX machine:
I started Cygwin
Typed "startx" and hit return
in the Xterm I typed "xhost +<remote server name>"
in the Xterm I typed "xset +fp tcp/<remote server name>:7100 (the
port the font server is listening on)
in the Xterm I opened an ssh session by typing "ssh -l <username>
<remote server name> and then entered the password when prompted
When logged in to the remote server I cd'd into the directory for
eclipse and executed my script to launch it which consists of the path
to the eclipse executable and these arguments:
<path>/eclipse -vm /opt/java1.4/bin/java -vmargs
-XdoCloseWithReadPending
This would bring up the splash and the application would load, but as
stated above, not open. I could open other X applications and have no
such issues.
Any assistance would be greatly helpful and valued.
Thank you,
Mark