From davidl@lmert.com Thu Nov 24 14:46:00 2016 From: davidl@lmert.com (David Lee Lambert) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:46:00 -0000 Subject: new start method (again?) Message-ID: So I have several Win7 or Win10 PCs with a small set of users who use them, I had modified the "XWin Server" shortcut by making it a per-user start menu item that would start each user's server at a different display number. Since some recent update, those shortcuts no longer work. Here's the error message... A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Unrecognized option: /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056 Please open the logfile for more information. Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.18.4.0 Contact: cygwin@cygwin.com Package: varsion 1.18.4-1 built 2016-07-22 XWin was started with the following command-line: /usr/bin/XWin :3 -multiwindow -listen -auth /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056 Screenshot at http://bit.ly/2gEeJkZ . Also, when I do start X, Win32 PuTTY doesn't seem to be able to forward remote programs to it any more. PuTTY does have an option to point to a ".Xauthority" file, but that doesn't seem to help. I sw some threads a few months ago that sounded similar, but reading through them so far I don't see a concise solution. Advice? -- DLL -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ From jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk Thu Nov 24 15:15:00 2016 From: jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk (Jon Turney) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:15:00 -0000 Subject: new start method (again?) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4dcca5b1-2825-6a6f-a7c1-1c06be5012ed@dronecode.org.uk> On 24/11/2016 14:46, David Lee Lambert wrote: > So I have several Win7 or Win10 PCs with a small set of users who use them, > I had modified the "XWin Server" shortcut by making it a per-user start > menu item that would start each user's server at a different display number. > Since some recent update, those shortcuts no longer work. Here's the error > message... > > A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. > > Unrecognized option: /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056 > > Please open the logfile for more information. > > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Release: 1.18.4.0 > Contact: cygwin@cygwin.com > Package: varsion 1.18.4-1 built 2016-07-22 > > XWin was started with the following command-line: > > /usr/bin/XWin :3 -multiwindow -listen -auth /home/**user**/.serverauth.17056 Since xinit-1.3.4-5/xserver-1.17.0-1 the -listen option is implemented in Xwin, not in startx, and now takes a protocol name. So I think you need to change '-listen' to '-listen tcp' in your shortcut. > Screenshot at http://bit.ly/2gEeJkZ . > > Also, when I do start X, Win32 PuTTY doesn't seem to be able to forward > remote programs to it any more. PuTTY does have an option to point to > a ".Xauthority" file, but that doesn't seem to help. > > I sw some threads a few months ago that sounded similar, but reading through > them so far I don't see a concise solution. I guess [1],[2] are the threads you refer to. I'm afraid there is no simple solution, currently. I guess what's needed is a patch to startx(|win) to use a deterministic .serverauth filename, or to add an option to disable the use of an authority file with the -auth option. [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2015-02/msg00075.html [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00358.html -- Jon Turney Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/