Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat

[Grant Mills]

On 3/7/07, Grant Mills <gmills@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) <reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > Grant Mills wrote:
> > > Background:
> > > Switched from Exceed yesterday.  Quickly realized that remote hosts
> > > couldn't contact local x server.  xhost <remote_mach> solved that
> > > problem.  Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost
> > > settings didn't persist.
> > >
> > > Spent half a day researching and experimenting xauth.  My remote host
> > > was failing with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 error message.  Eventually, I
> > > added "-auth ~/.Xauthority" to the command line that starts XWin.exe
> > > in startxwin.bat.  That did the trick.
> > >
> > > Question:
> > > My question is this... Is there a way to add "-auth ~/.Xauthority"
> > > option to the startup of XWin.exe without modifying any of the
> > > provided files?  Something like the ~/.cvsrc file.  I'd like to make
> > > sure that the next time X-startup-scripts gets updated, I won't have
> > > to remember what I modified and go back and do it again.
> > >
> > > I tried using ~/.xserverrc but I'd prefer to be able to use
> > > startxwin.bat in my startup folder.
> > >
> > > I could submit a patch that would check for .Xauthority's existence
> > > and add the option when detected.  If this is a suitable option, let
> > > me know and I'll submit it.
> >
> > ~/.xserverrc sounds like a perfectly good spot to me.  It won't get changed
> > out from under you in the next upgrade (whenever that is) like
> > startxwin.bat.
> >
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> I'm not that thrilled about using ~/.xserverrc because it is meant to
> start an alternate server from startx, not just provide extra options.
>
> --
> Grant Mills
>

Argh!!!  Nevermind.  I was certain that my XAUTHORITY environment
variable was set.  It wasn't.  What a great way to waste half a day.

Sorry for the interruption.

-- 
Grant Mills

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