need help scripting multiple xfree startups

[Thomas Chadwick]

Are you looking on the cygwin machine or on one of the remote machines?  It 
should be there on the cygwin machine.  I believe twm is packaged with the 
Xserver, so if you can run X, twm should be there and so should its config 
file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm.

Just in case it really is missing, I'll email you my copy (off-list).

>From: "Dennis Foreman" <dforeman@stny.rr.com>
>Reply-To: <dforeman@stny.rr.com>
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Subject: RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:06:04 -0400
>
>I looked for:
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm/system.twmrc and can only find a 
>.../mwm/system.mwmrc
>
>Is there a relationship between mwm and twm? Can I use the mwm file instead
>of the twm file?
>
>I have gotten the RSA keys set up and working. My machine is in a secure
>area (home, no kids, no visitor access). The remote machine is also secure
>from general access.
>
>regards,
>D. J. Foreman
>website: http://WWW.CS.Binghamton.EDU/~foreman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Chadwick [mailto:j_tetazoo@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:25 AM
>To: dforeman@stny.rr.com; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: need help scripting multiple xfree startups
>
>
> >From: "Dennis Foreman" <dforeman@stny.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: <dforeman@stny.rr.com>
> >To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> >Subject: need help scripting multiple xfree startups
> >Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:30:18 -0400
> >
>[snip]
> >
> >I need to repeat this 8 more times for each of 8 different machines. Is
> >there some way of automating this? (Yes, I know a script will do it. I 
>need
> >some detailed help on what to put in the script.) Especially eliminating
> >having to type a pw every time
>
>There is plenty of information about this in the ssh man page.  Here's a
>quick recipe:
>
>1) Open a Cygwin bash window and cd into ~/.ssh (if the directory doesn't
>exist, create it).
>2) Run "ssh-keygen -t rsa1".  Accept the default filename of 
>~/.ssh/identity
>and use a blank passphrase.  PROTECT THIS FILE!  Anyone who gets ahold of 
>it
>can use it as if they were you and gain access to systems without a 
>password
>or passphrase.  Consider yourself warned!
>3) FTP the resulting file named identity.pub onto each of the target 
>systems
>and put it in /tmp (DO NOT put it in ~/.ssh).
>4) On each remote system, append the contents of the identity.pub file to
>the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys:
>
>     cat /tmp/identity.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
>5) At this point, you should be able to ssh to each remote system and get 
>in
>without being prompted for a password.
>
> >and clicking to establish the Xwindow on the
> >X desktop.
> >
> >regards,
> >D. J. Foreman
> >website: http://WWW.CS.Binghamton.EDU/~foreman
>
>I'd say you've already figured out most of this part.  To automatically
>launch an xterm and have it run a command on a remote machine, put the
>following command in your favorite X startup script (e.g. startxwin.bat,
>startxwin.sh, or .xinitrc) in the same section where you see other xterms
>being launched (I've put backslashes to indicate that this should all be on
>1 line):
>
>ssh -X -l remote_username remote_hostname \
>xterm -title "remote_username@remote_hostname" \
>-e remote_command
>
>If you're putting this in startxwin.bat, you may need to preceed it with
>"run" or "start" (I don't know for sure, I don't use that script).  If
>you're putting it in startxwin.sh or .xinitrc, append an ampersand ("&") to
>the end.
>
>Want it to act on 8 other machines?  Repeat the same command 8 more times
>with a different value for remote_machine each time.
>
>As for getting the xterm to place itself on your screen without having to
>click:  If you're using the default Window Manager twm, copy the file
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm/system.twmrc to ~/.twmrc.  Then edit ~/.twmrc and 
>add
>"RandomPlacement" on a line by itself towards the top of the file just 
>after
>the comments.  If you're using some other window manager, then consult its
>man page.
>
>
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