From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4569 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2015 21:39:00 -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 4554 invoked by uid 89); 7 Jan 2015 21:38:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: selene.blankersfamily.com Received: from 87-161.ftth.onsbrabantnet.nl (HELO selene.blankersfamily.com) (88.159.161.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:38:57 +0000 Received: from gaia.blankersfamily.com (gaia.blankersfamily.com [172.30.0.103]) by selene.blankersfamily.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03AC5AB for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:38:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (Authenticated sender: laurens@blankersfamily.com) by gaia.blankersfamily.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 019F810A for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:38:46 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54ADA76C.8080709@blankersfamily.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:39:00 -0000 From: Laurens Blankers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; 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> <54ABACF8.90406@blankersfamily.com> <54ACCD52.1010309@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <54ACCD52.1010309@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 On 7-1-2015 07:08, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > One of the recent improvements to startxwin was that it would now find > an available $DISPLAY itself, just like startx does. Using > -silent-dup-error doesn't do that; think of the case where another > user on the same system has started an X server first, then you > wouldn't get an X server at all. It would be very nice if that functionality, and anything else that might be added in the future, applies regardless of which shortcut you click. Would it be difficult to maintain an addition option to startxwin e.g. --skip-rc? >> Although, technically, since your startxwin script is no longer an >> adaptation of xinit it qualifies as an original program and could be put >> in a package on its own, with its own versioning. I am not suggesting >> you do this, without support for transitional packages in Cygwin this >> would be even more confusing to users. But you script is now more than >> just a patch to xinit! > > Now it's more a patch to startx instead. I still consider it an original program rather than just a patch :-) Laurens -- Laurens _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/