Cygwin X-Win scripting help

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Nov 24 14:26:00 GMT 2008


tbishop wrote:
> Of course I did that :) :) :)  It doesn't work and I am lost, that's
> all the opening of several windows at least they pop up confuses me
> until there is only one.. and it's like an empty Cygwin window...
> and the X session is dead,, who knows like we haven't heard Vista
> is full of bugs :( :( :(  any more ideas please let me know..

It seems far more likely this is a Cygwin/X problem than a Vista problem, and 
I'd like to help you, but this is just far too vague a problem report for me 
to suggest anything intelligent.

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

> Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> tbishop wrote:
>>> I have used XP and have used this script for a long time as a bat file to
>>> get
>>> to my UNIX box:
>>> ===============================================================
>>> @echo off
>>>
>>>
>>> C:
>>> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>>>
>>> bash --login -c "\XWin.exe -query 128.49.000.44 -from 128.23.77.149"
>>> ================================================================
>>> for some reason on Vista it seems NOT to work the same, way, it opens up
>>> 3
>>> command
>>> tools, the 3rd one blank and a blank Xsession... nothing on the screen
>>> but
>>> an X
>>> in the middle.... does anyone have any ideas???
>> If this is a new computer with Vista on it you'll need to change the
>> "-from" 
>> IP address to match.

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