I can send you a pdf of our setup doc, if you'd like. Should I use the
gmail address listed here?
Randy
David Weintraub wrote:
> Thanks. That actually makes a lot more sense than running XWin
> multiple times each time I want an XTerm.
>
> Not too sure how to start xserver as a Windows service, though. It's
> not already listed as a Windows service, so I assume that this is
> something I have to setup. Is the process documented somewhere?
>
> On 12/6/06, Randy Brown <Randy.Brown@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> Run the xserver as a Windows Service. That fixed it for us. Didn't fix
>> it, but eliminated the error. ;)
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> David Weintraub wrote:
>> > I've been using Cygwin/X for several years, and I never had this
>> > problem before. However, I've recently installed Cygwin/X on my new
>> > system, and now I notice that XWin's -silent-dup-error command line
>> > parameter no longer seems to work.
>> >
>> > I startup Cygwin/X by creating a Windows shortcut that runs
>> > startxwin.bat. This will startup a XTerm window for me. When I want to
>> > start another XTerm window, I simply the same shortcut again even
>> > though XWin is already running. I depend upon the -silent-dup-error
>> > parameter to allow the second instance of XWin to fail without
>> > alerting me of the problem.
>> >
>> > However, on this new installation of Cygwin/X and run XWin with
>> > -silent-dup-error, I now get the error dialog box. The new Xterm still
>> > starts, but now I have to manually close the dialog box which is a
>> > minor pain. Has there been a change in XWin in the last 18 months that
>> > would cause this problem? Is there a workaround?
>> >
>> > How can I, in a Windows batch program, determine whether XWin is
>> > already running, so I can simply skip bypass rerunning the XWin
>> > command?
>> >
>>
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