From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4691 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2015 18:17:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 4680 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jan 2015 18:17:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:17:37 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t05IHZ16019399 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:17:35 -0500 Received: from [10.10.116.17] ([10.10.116.17]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t05IHXZE020601 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:17:35 -0500 Message-ID: <54AAD53C.8050403@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:17:00 -0000 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving xinit 1.3.4 References: <54AA7981.7080805@blankersfamily.com> <54AACD28.9060407@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <54AACD28.9060407@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 On 2015-01-05 11:43, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2015-01-05 05:46, Laurens Blankers wrote: >> As requested [1] a separate thread for suggesting improvements to xinit, >> in order to solve some of the issues people have been having since the >> release of 1.3.4-1 [2]. >> >> 1. Handling of empty .startxwinrc >> Given the new behaviour of startxwin having an empty is never a correct >> configuration. It would be really nice if startxwin could check for a >> zero length .startxwinrc and in that case just start the X server >> without any programs, as it used to do in 1.3.2-1. This would solve a >> problem reported several times [3, 4] and also solve the problem of >> having an icon on the task bar for 'sleep inf' [5]. > > And what if it's not zero-length but still blank? I could have startxwin check if ~/.startxwinrc is executable, and skip if it not, which might also cover many of these empty .startxwinrc's. OTOH all that might accomplish is trade the "why won't it start" for "why doesn't it respect my config". :-) -- Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/