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Re: Cygwin/X and cygrunsrv
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:56:59 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin/X and cygrunsrv
- References: <e53e7ea10612030726m7a5c7c93y4f292a4b4f04e734@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Tomasz B?achowicz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have a question to more experienced users. Is it possible to run
> Cygwin/X as service on my XP box? Currently I've added startxwin.bat
> to Windows Startup so it starts at the system startup. But I'd like to
> run X server using cygrunsrv like httpd2, ssh and cron. Although I'm
> not certain it's a good idea in general.
>
> Every piece of advice is welcome, I'd appreciate it.
Tom,
Contrary to the popular belief and the unfortunate naming, the X server is
not really a server. It is an application that accepts requests from
other applications (called the X clients) and draws them on the screen.
This means that it needs to have access to the Windows desktop (which is
one of the reasons it cannot successfully run as a service). You are
probably better off with your current setup.
Igor
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