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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: mathog@caltech.edu Subject: Re: new start method questions Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 13:07:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <8f75beb3-f1d7-13ba-fe6a-31e0abbc5cf2@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <6c8a79d4a9931765dbe5f4652a9e3975@saf.bio.caltech.edu> On 10/06/2016 18:05, mathog wrote: > On 09-Jun-2016 17:55, mathog wrote: >> Last time around the start bat script was just: >> >> @echo off >> set CYGXTOP=%~dp0 >> C: >> chdir "%CYGXTOP%\var\log\xwin" >> move XWin.0.log.1 XWin.0.log.2 >> move XWin.0.log XWin.0.log.1 >> chdir "%CYGXTOP%\bin" >> start Xwin :0 -multiwindow >> >> Is there some reason that a similar cut down bat file would not work >> with the current cygwin X11 server? (With "-listen tcp" plus a windows >> firewall rule to only let it talk to localhost.) Usually, the fastest way to answer that kind of question is to try it :) > In a regular CMD shell navigated to the bin directory and did: > > start Xwin :0 -multiwindow -listen tcp > > and it worked. So none of the current start script seems to be > necessary if the only > goal is to start the X11 server. It seems to work normally, at least by > the criterion that xdpyinfo returns the same information as for the > other starts. Yes, if running XWin doesn't actually start the server, that would be a bug > On a related note - are there any situations where the X11 server itself > (not something in its startup script) will start a subprocess and run a > different binary? For instance, some sort of font search operation, or > perhaps some conditional load of an X11 feature which isn't normally > started, or some funny kind of cut and paste operation on the Window side? There are only 2 cases I can think of: - The xserver runs xkbcomp during start up to compile the keyboard map - Menu items in Xwinrc which use the EXEC instruction -- Jon Turney Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-13 13:07 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-06-09 23:32 mathog 2016-06-10 0:55 ` mathog 2016-06-10 2:27 ` Marco Atzeri 2016-06-10 17:05 ` mathog 2016-06-13 13:07 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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