xdm question

[Harold L Hunt]

Wout,

Read this:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-tasklist-programs-
slow

(be careful that part of the URL has not wrapped around... be sure to copy 
and paste both parts if that has happened)


Also, make sure that you do not have Hummingbird SOCKS installed... I swear I 
wrote a FAQ entry for this, but I can't seem to find it:

http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/socks/index.html

Report your results to the cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com mailing list.

Harold

Jeremy Wilkins <jeb@jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk> said:

> try using
> 
> Xwin -query 10.0.0.2 -from <myIPAddress>
> 
> If you've got multiple interfaces this sometimes works better.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> Wout de Jong wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After reading xdm howto and setting things up according to manual, I 
tried to use 
> > 
> > xwin -query 10.0.0.2
> > 
> > to contact my linux box. But only the xserver fired up, no login screen 
to be seen.
> > 
> > 
> > When using xwinpro (with query switch) I got a login screen after a 
couple of seconds. 
> > 
> > Anybody an idea?
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>