Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!

Kercso Jozsef jozsefke@freemail.hu
Tue Nov 5 00:39:00 GMT 2002


Hi!

 > Dawson, David W was recently quoted as saying...
 > >
 > > When the X-server detects that the last client connection terminates, the
 > > server does a full reset.
 > >
 > > xhost is NOT a persistent connection.
 > > As soon as the xhost program completes it's job (telling the X-Server host
 > > to change the permissions), the xhost program closes it's connection with
 > > the X-server.  Since (in your case) it is the ONLY connection at that time,
 > > the X-server resets and promptly eradicates the xhost setting.
 > >
 > > You need to open a persistent connection first: an xterm, a window manager,
 > > xclock, something....

 > ... or run XWin.exe with the -noreset option.

Yes, that was the problem, thanks.

Best regards,
   Jozsef Kercso



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