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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:04:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <announce.5477E619.7090107@cygwin.com> (raw) The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xinit-1.3.4-1 xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. This is an update to the latest upstream release, and includes a number of major changes to X session handling: * startxwin is now a shell script instead of an executable; if you have any homemade links thereto, be sure to remember the .exe extension. * startxwin now automatically finds an unused DISPLAY number, just like startx. * startxwin now includes a default startxwinrc (if ~/.startxwinrc is absent) which launches a number of applicable "autostart" session services if present. * The new default startxwinrc also launches a miniature fbpanel in the upper left corner of the screen which contains an XDG application menu (the 'X' icon) for launching X applications, plus an on-demand area for X tray icons. After the first run, the panel and menu can be customized in ~/.config/fbpanel/multiwindow. * User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the final command therein must be run in the foreground, and that command's exiting will end the X session, just like with startx and ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients. * Both startx and startxwin now start a D-Bus session bus automatically. * X sessions (both multwindow and desktop) started with the newly revised Start Menu shortcuts now log stderr to ~/.xsession-errors. * startx now prefers ~/.Xclients (which must also be executable) instead of ~/.xinitrc; the latter can still be used, but doing so will override many of the new features mentioned here. * If startx is run from the command line and neither ~/.xinitrc nor ~/.Xclients are present, it will try to start a real desktop environment if present before falling back to twm/xterm. * startx and startxwin now pass '-nolisten tcp' to the server by default, which increases security in the X server by not opening a port to TCP connections. The '-listen' flag can be passed as a server argument to override this. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X -- 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/
next reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 3:04 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-11-28 3:04 Yaakov Selkowitz [this message] 2014-11-28 8:45 ` Marco Atzeri 2014-11-28 11:54 ` Jon TURNEY 2014-11-28 22:53 ` Ken Brown 2014-11-30 4:02 ` Yaakov Selkowitz 2014-11-30 6:36 ` Nem W Schlecht 2014-11-30 7:45 ` Yaakov Selkowitz 2014-11-30 13:57 ` Ken Brown 2014-12-01 18:15 ` Jim Reisert AD1C 2014-12-01 18:16 ` Jim Reisert AD1C 2014-11-29 2:05 ` Nem W Schlecht 2014-11-29 2:46 ` Marco Atzeri 2014-11-29 20:19 ` Nem W Schlecht 2014-12-05 13:35 ` Jon TURNEY 2014-12-05 14:51 ` Nem W Schlecht 2014-11-30 0:18 Angelo Graziosi
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