Mouse/keyboard emulation

[Thomas Chadwick]

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>From: "Mark Vovchuk" <Mark@DTSOFT.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Subject: Mouse/keyboard emulation
>Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:51:05 -0400
>
>I have been trying to use Cygwin, at least in part, as an X server on
>top of a Windows install to be able to execute programs from a UNIX
>server and have them appear locally.  The application I have been
>specifically attempting to do so with is Eclipse (motif for HP-UX).
>Just about every other application that I have run has been able to take
>keyboard and mouse input from the Windows machine with no problems.
>However, when I run Eclipse, the Java based GUI will launch after a
>short time, however it will be a dead screen with no ability to click,
>move focus or execute any commands.  In this attempt, I also tried to
>display a full Xwindows (CDE on HP-UX 11.0) session.  This did work once
>I was able to sort out the X font server issue I encountered initially.
>I was able to control the window when displaying the full X session.  My
>boss was able to get it to work completely the way we wanted with
>another product, however that was a demo of software that is far to
>expensive for us to purchase.
>
>This is what I tried to do concerning displaying only the application
>remotely to my Windows desktop from the UNIX machine:
>
>I started Cygwin
>     Typed "startx" and hit return
>     in the Xterm I typed "xhost +<remote server name>"
>     in the Xterm I typed "xset +fp tcp/<remote server name>:7100 (the
>port the font server is listening on)
>     in the Xterm I opened an ssh session by typing "ssh -l <username>
><remote server name> and then entered the password when prompted
>     When logged in to the remote server I cd'd into the directory for
>eclipse and executed my script to launch it which consists of the path
>to the eclipse executable and these arguments:
>
><path>/eclipse -vm /opt/java1.4/bin/java -vmargs
>-XdoCloseWithReadPending
>
>This would bring up the splash and the application would load, but as
>stated above, not open.  I could open other X applications and have no
>such issues.
>
>Any assistance would be greatly helpful and valued.
>
>
>
>
>Thank you,
>Mark
>

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