Re: Multiple Session Question

[Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:50 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got cygwin working well via SSH to single host, single window. 
> I connect via SSH, and run "startkde" - I get the KDE desktop in one 
> single window. Works great!
> 
> How do I connect to a second machine at the same time.
> 
> See below for details.
> 
> -Duane.
> 
> 
> For example:
>     I login as my self - with ssh & a remote session
> And I login as another person to the same machine.
>      In my case, I have two accounts:
> 		A development account
> 	And	A Test account.
> 
> Likewise, I have this situation:
> 	I login to Machine1 - and it works.
> 	I login to Machine2 - and it works.
> 
> Problem:
> 	I can only have 1 connection to 1 machine at a time.
> 	Both should have separate window/display.
> 
> I have done this with commercial X11 packages, but not CygwinX.
> 
> This does not seem to work, and I can't seem to find in the user docs
> any thing that reasonably describes some things.
> 
> (1) Yes, I have tried using a different display, ie:
>         127.0.0.1:0.0
>     And 127.0.0.1:1.0
> 
>   That does not work when I have 2 sessions.
>   The two displays work - independent of each other
> 
> (2) I'm not sure what is going on with the /tmp/.X11-unix/dir
>     And can't find docs for it - I suspect it is part of the problem.
>  
> (3) I'm not sure what the "--screen" options do for the Xwin program.
> 
> The script I to start the session (via SSH and public keys) is below,
> 
> The difference between the two is WHO and DISPLAY.
> 
> The script below - deletes the old /tmp/.X11-dir, which I know is a bad
> thing with 2 sessions. I have tried not deleting it - that does not seem to
> help.
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> TARGET=linxbox
> 
> WHO=duane
> #WHO=testaccount
> 
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> #export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0
> export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
> export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
> export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale
> 
> rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix
> 
> XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error &
> 
> echo "STARTING KDE REMOTEL"
> ssh -l $WHO $TARGET "startkde" &
> echo "DONE RUNNING KDE REMOTELY"
> 
> exit
> 
> 
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try

#!/bin/bash

TARGET=linxbox
TARGETONE=linxbox1

WHO=duane
WHO1=testaccount

export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
#export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0
export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale


XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error &

echo "STARTING KDE REMOTEL"
ssh -l $WHO $TARGET "startkde" &
ssh -l $WHO1 $TARGETONE "startkde" &
echo "DONE RUNNING KDE REMOTELY"

exit

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