From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12416 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2004 12:03:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12390 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2004 12:03:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lucian.tromer.org) (192.117.108.16) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2004 12:03:11 -0000 Received: from tromer.org (phor [192.168.0.1]) by lucian.tromer.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i24C38pO004566 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:03:08 +0200 Message-ID: <40471B9D.7090308@tromer.org> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:03:00 -0000 From: cygwinx2eran@tromer.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 List-Id: On 2004-03-04 18:02, Takuma Murakami wrote: > > Perhaps there should be a switch that says "if the display already > > exists, exit silently". > I agree. We should have an option like "-silent" or "-quiet". That's not quite it -- I want to ignore a "display already exists" error, but if some other fatal error prevents XWin from loading I want to know about it (say, via the dialog box). > Let's suppose Cygwin/X has -silent option as above: then I > think startxwin.bat with -silent option is sufficient for your > purpose. It will start a server (which silently fails if there > is the other) and then start some favorite applications. This would spawn new instances of my favorite applications every time I open an xterm. Not a pretty sight. Eran