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persistent DISPLAY variable
- From: "Bob B" <linybob at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:04:54 -0400
- Subject: persistent DISPLAY variable
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I have been using Cygwin XFree for several years now and it has worked
great. I mainly use it on Windows using XWin -ac -query 100.100.100.100 or
similar to connect via XDMCP. This has been working great.
I am quite experienced in X and Unix and know many of the X config files. At
least I thought I did!
Lately, my hostname seems to have been changed here at work and my PC now
has a new hostname than it has had for the past few years. Consequently, I
am unable to make XWin connect as it used to. I get an "Unable to open
display oldhostname:0.0" message. My problem is that for the life of me I
can not see where it could be getting "oldhostname" from. I have grepped
every file I can think of under the Cygwin installation - in my home
directory and all over and I can not find this name anywhere. I searched the
Windows registry and do not see it. I do not see it set in Windows variables
or Cygwin variables. I have repeatedly checked the DISPLAY variable and it
is either not defined at all or I set it manually. If I define it manually
in Cygwin before invoking XWin, XWin *still* tries to open a display at
"oldhostname:0.0", not "newhostname:0.0". I've looked in files in Cygwin's
/etc directory and can't find any reference to "oldhostname".
As I recall, did XWin previously automagically set the DISPLAY variable? I
just have an icon on my XP destop that has the properties Xwin -ac -query
machineA. In XP there is no DISPLAY variable set. I do not see where XWin
used to get the DISPLAY variable from. Is there a config file I am
forgetting about?
I am not using startx.bat or starxwin.bat or anything else. Just a direct
invocation of Xwin.exe. But somehow Xwin.exe seems to be trying to open a
DISPLAY at oldhostname:0.0 rather than newhostname:0.0 no matter what I do.
Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
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