Problem with -multiwindow and -clipboard when using -nolisten tcp

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Brian Willis wrote:

> I'm trying to turn off the tcp port for Cygwin/X.  I would like to just 
> close it down on the outside interface and still have it listen on the 
> loopback device.  I have not been able to find a way to do that.  The 
> closest thing I could find is to turn off tcp all together.  This does 
> work.  I'm able to bring up xterms and the whole deal.  I get odd 
> behavior after that.  The xterm allows me to copy and paste within the 
> window, but it doesn't copy to the Microsoft Windows clipboard.   The x 
> button on the upper right corner of the xterm also does not work.  You 
> can only open one xterm or other type of xforwarding because multiwindow 
> hasn't loaded.  Is there a setting to tell multiwindow and clipboard 
> where the display is?  I can see them trying to access the loopback. 
> Here is output from my xwin.log:
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-2
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin :0 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp -silent-dup-error
> 
> winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping: 5
> 
> I can see the clipboard and multiwin try and use the loopback and fail. 
>   Is there something I'm missing?  Can I use loopback without the 
> outside interface listening?

Multiwindow and clipboard require enabled tcp transport. But you can create
patches which force the threads to use :0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1:0.0 if 
the tcp transport is switched off.

bye
	ago
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