Re: cut and paste xfree <-> windows

[Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:48:42PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I have finally got it working, my start up .BAT file to run an xdmcp
> connection is as follows:-
> 
>     SET DISPLAY=192.168.13.25:0.0
> 
>     SET REMOTE_HOST=192.168.13.1
> 
>     SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
> 
>     SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> 
> 
>     REM Cleanup after last run.
> 
>     if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
>     attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
>     del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> 
>     :CLEANUP-FINISH
>     if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix
> 
>     echo startxdmcp.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP
> 
>     start /B XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST%
>     sleep 10
>     start /B xwinclip
> 
> 
> That sleep between starting XWin and xwinclip seems to be necessary
> but now it does seem to work reasonably reliably.  I have fixed IP
> addresses for the machines on my home network so the 192.168.13.25
> will always be the same for the win2k machine.
> 
Plus the other little (but vitally important) bit, an /etc/X0.hosts
file containing:-

    192.168.13.25

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)