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Re: xauth issue (remote X w/putty via Cygwin/XWin)
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: chrislouden at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:48:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: xauth issue (remote X w/putty via Cygwin/XWin)
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On 15/09/2015 16:56, Chris Louden wrote:
Following up on this post:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2015-02/msg00075.html
Is there any news regarding the getting "listen tcp" issue with xauth
resolved. The workaround mentioned works but isn't ideal in the
environment I have.
No progress, but a couple more suggestions:
cygwin now has an X11 PuTTY client package. I haven't tested that, but
I guess that should be able to find the X display and authority file
without any special configuration.
Alternatively, you could patch xinit to use a deterministic name for the
authority file e.g. ~/.serverauth.hostname.display rather than
~/.serverauth.pid.
(If you write such a patch, please submit it, as that would probably be
acceptable in our package and maybe upstream. Using just the pid seems
wrong, as there potentially could be collisions in a shared home directory)
--
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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