help with xwinclip

[Nikolaus Bates-Haus]

If you set DISPLAY to an IP address, xwinclip tries to connect as a remote
client, and XFree is finicky about security.
Set DISPLAY to ":0.0" instead; this will connect as a local client instead,
so you won't get refused.

-nik

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:05:37PM -0400, Eli Kleinman wrote:
> 
> I download the xwinclip-Test03.exe.bz2 from cygwin-xFree86 web 
> site, and installed it by bunzip2 and coping it to /usr/X11R6/bin 
> Now I am trying to start it by running xwinclip.exe, first it gave me 
> can not open DISPLAY so I set my DISPLAY to my local hosts 
> (this is where I am currently running my xFree86 - CDE), but this is 
> the error what I got.
> 
> $ export DISPLAY=192.9.200.136:0.0
> $ xwinclip.exe -display 192.9.200.136:0.0
> Xlib: connection to "192.9.200.136:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> any help is appreciate
> Eli