From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58134 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2015 17:45:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 58125 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jun 2015 17:45:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out5-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:45:25 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B6120AF4 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:45:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:45:23 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [31.51.205.195]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1CD75680171; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <556DEBAC.5040603@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:45:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cees Dam , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XWin -silent-dup-error does not work anymore References: <17839.6935262301$1429950806@news.gmane.org> <55420D9D.4050706@dronecode.org.uk> <3485.50957064635$1430414419@news.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <3485.50957064635$1430414419@news.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-06/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 On 30/04/2015 18:19, Cees Dam wrote: > I work as system administrator at the Rotterdam Port Authority. One of the main systems is a huge Vessel Traffic System build of more then 100 Suse Linux > Systems. About half of the processors is used to display the harbour of Rotterdam with al the vessels (retrieved from 41 RADAR stations) and AIS. > All the network traffic within this system is based on multicasting. > > However, on a few locations like the office of the Pilots, firewalls prevent the multicasting traffic. So I installed a couple of Win 7 systems at there office with Cygwin. With X over ssh I deliver them the same display (application) as on the Traffic centers. Cygwin is installed with only xinit and openssh. > > These people are not familiar with computers so I gave them one link on there desktop starting XWin and the ssh connection (mintty -e etc). If they want to start the session again (because they were unaware of the fact a session was already running) I don't like popups and warnings. They should click the X icon on the taskbar to bring the application back up on there desktop. > > In 2014 I build a Cygwin 64 bit version (one of the first 64-bit releases) and this problem did not occur. > > So it's important for a friendly way of use for people who don't have any kwowledge of computers. > > I hope you can solve the problem. I uploaded X server 1.17.1-5 packages today. With those, -silent-dup-error should be working again. Thanks again for reporting this issue. > Van: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk] > Verzonden: donderdag 30 april 2015 13:10 > Aan: Cees Dam; cygwin@cygwin.com > Onderwerp: Re: XWin -silent-dup-error does not work anymore > > On 25/04/2015 09:32, Cees Dam wrote: >> If Xwin.exe is started with -silent-dup-error flag and a second >> instance of Xwin.exe is also started with the -silent-dup-error flag a >> pop-up notification shows up with fatal errors. The output in the >> terminal (with -silent-dup-error flag) is the same as shown below with the -v flag. > > Thanks for reporting this. > > It seems that this has been broken for almost 2 years, so perhaps this option is not often used :D > > I'd be interested to hear what your use case is for it? > > I'll have a go at fixing it, but it seems there is an interaction now with the '-nolisten tcp' default which makes this not quite straightforward. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple