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How to get more than one X-window?
- From: "Vanguard" <vanguard dot news at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:14:31 -0500
- Subject: How to get more than one X-window?
I did the install of Cygwin a couple days ago but have been fumbling
around trying to get more than one X-windows session opened on the
screen. I will open Cygwin (which loads a bash shell) and then run
"xwin -query <hostname>" to get a login session on that host (on the
particular host to which I am currently connecting, I get logged in
under KDE). I then want another X-window opened to another host. I
work on several hosts at a time. If it were just the one host, I can
open xterms inside the one X-windows session shown on my Windows host.
When, in a bash shell, I try to run another "xwin -query
<otherhostname>", a bunch of text pops up which basically tells me that
the X server is already running. Well, yeah, it got started by the
first xwin command. Doesn't the Cygwin X-server handle more than one X
session at a time?
I'm actually used to using Reflection X or Exceed X to connect to Unix
hosts from my Windows box but I don't have those available at some
locations and they said to use Cygwin (because it was free).
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