Running Xwin in passive mode

Biju bijumaillist@yahoo.com
Wed May 7 05:20:00 GMT 2003


--- "KIDWELL, REX (SBCSI)" <rk8142@sbc.com> wrote:
> Has anyone figured out how to run Xwin in the passive mode (sorry Exceed
> terminology)?
> 
> Passive mode is defined as starting a Xserver in the background without a
> full screen session manager.  The goal is to display individual X clients
> like any other program running on a Windows platform.  I.E. run remote
> xterms and dtterms from remote systems and display them like a DOS CMD
> window.
> 
> An additional requirement would be to run them from a single Xwin invocation
> so cut and paste would be supported between xterms.

You can put "XWin.exe" in 
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
    or
I think if you put an entry for "XWin.exe -ac -multiwindow" in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

you should also have to PATH variable set to point to proper cygwin dir
and DISPLAY=localhost:0

(PS: I feel setting of registry in this case is OK)

Cheers
Biju


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