RE: xwinclip-Test07 does not work with XWin -query

[Joo-won Jung <sanori at sanori dot net>]

> Sanori,
> 
> Let me tell you, I wrote xwinclip and I still don't fully understand how to
> make it work well when using -query.
> 
> I can tell you that running xhost on your Windows machine won't help
> anything.  What you need to do is run xhost in a terminal that is running
> within your -query session.  That should setup XWin.exe on your machine to
> accept connections from local clients.  The reason you can run xhost on your
> Windows machine is that not even xhost has permission to connect to XWin.exe
> at that point, so xhost cannot modify the access control list.

I know that only the clients on XDM host have control on control
list of the X server when I run X with '-query' option, and I did so.

> I hope that helps, let us know if it does.
> 
> Harold

Now I found the problem. xwinclip.exe does not process '-display' option.
I found this after seeing the source code of xwinclip.
I think it would be better if xwinclip process '-display' option as
other X clients do, or give error message if the option is not
recognized.
(Someone may say that it's the bash's fault since bash does not set
 DISPLAY environment variable.)

I tried 'export DISPLAY=:0' and 'xwinclip' instead of doing
'xwinclip -display :0', then it works. Of course, I did
'xhost win_host_name' on the terminal before doing this. 

One more feature request: It would be better if the option for silent
or designate the log file.

Anyway, thank you for xwinclip. It helps me a lot.

I hope my tip help others.

-Sanori

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Joo-won Jung
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:49 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: xwinclip-Test07 does not work with XWin -query
> 
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> Thank you, the developers and users of XFree86-cygwin.
> Most of the cases XFree86-cygwin works fine on my computer.
> But, I want to tell a problem that I have got in stuck.
> 
> I'm using Windows XP. I succeeded copy&paste text between Windows
> and X window using xwinclip. But I failed copy&paste when I start X
> with -query option. The error messages of xwinclip is as follows:
> 
>	UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
>	Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping: 4
>	Could not open display, try: 2, sleeping: 4
>	Could not open display, try: 3, sleeping: 4
>	Failed opening the display, giving up
>
> I added my host to X control list, using "xhost" and tried
> "xwinclip -display :0" but it gives same error message.
> Since "xclipboard -display :0" worked, I bet I did not wrong
> in X control list.
> 
> I don't know how the xwinclip.exe works.
> Please give me some information or pointers about this problem.
> 
> -Sanori