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Re: commnd line parameter -nolisten is incompatible wih -multiwindow ?
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: ludo <ludovic dot leman at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:05:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: commnd line parameter -nolisten is incompatible wih -multiwindow ?
- References: <49C1025F.4030905@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
ludo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't start XWin with both -nolisten and -multiwindow parameter
> Is this a bug or a ... feature ?
>
> $ XWin :0 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp
> [...]
>
> of course "XWin :0 -multiwindow" works fine
>
> Any suggestion ?
XWin -multiwindow or -clipboard will not be compatible with -nolisten tcp, as
those options start clients (the Windows window manager integration window
manager and the clipboard integration, respectively) which expect to be able
to connect to the X server via TCP.
I suppose this is a bug, in the sense that we ought to detect the incompatible
arguments and terminate with an error, but anyone using -nolisten tcp should,
I hope, be able to interpret the output from the server (saying "I tried to
connect to 127.0.0.1:0.0 and failed") to work out what the problem is :-)
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