Running remote window manager
Robert Collins
robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Tue Dec 5 21:12:00 GMT 2000
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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