Problem with running X apps

Thomas Chadwick j_tetazoo@hotmail.com
Tue Aug 6 12:19:00 GMT 2002


Add the follow "scriptlet" to the end of /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh:

disp=`echo $DISPLAY | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
ip=`ipconfig | grep Address | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed "s# ##g"`
xhost remotehostname
rsh -l remoteusername remotehostname \
    xterm -title "remoteusername@remotehostname" -display $ip:$disp &

Thereafter, when starting XWin with this script, you will get 2 xterms at 
startup, one on localhostname and one on remotehostname.

Note that for rsh to be successful, you need to have a file called ".rhosts" 
in your home directory on remotehostname.  You will want to add an entry 
that looks like "localhostname localusername" on a line by itself.

You can figure out the value to use for localhostname by running "hostname" 
at the Cygwin bash prompt.

You can figure out the value to use for localusername by running "whoami" at 
the Cygwin bash prompt.

Type "man rsh" at the Cygwin bash prompt to learn more about the rsh 
command.

>From: "Kerry Sanders" <ksanders@mindspring.com>
>To: "'Thomas Chadwick'" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>,<cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Subject: RE: Problem with running X apps
>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:38:10 -0500
>
>That is what I was going for, but being new to Linux, I am trying to
>figure out what to use other than ssh at this point.  Would it be
>rlogin?
>
>For the record, I am running a WinXP box over a 100 BaseT home network
>connecting to a Redhat 7.3 linux box.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Since I'm behind a corporate firewall, I'm not particularly concerned
>about
>who is looking at my X traffic, or what they might see, so I don't
>bother
>with ssh.


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