x -query help please

[Alexander Gottwald]

Jasper, Chris wrote:

> The behavior is that a grey screen comes up in X. Normally I'd expect (and do from other machines using cygwin) to see a blue screen with a login (from redhat 9 as that is the OS on maple) screen.
>
> I have uninstalled cygwin and reinstalled many times. When uninstalling, I run the uninstall portion of setup and when it is complete I delete the Cygnus registry and delete c:\cygwin before attempting a install all. No matter how many times I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I always get this problem.
>
> Can anyone shed light on this?

Most distributions install xdm, kdm or wdm (or whatever they use) in a pure
local configuration. It will not accept or wait for any requests from the
network. Check the FAQ. It describes how to enable network support for several
XDMCP servers.

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