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Re: Automatic X server startup
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: p dot fedin at samsung dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:20:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: Automatic X server startup
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On 27/05/2014 13:52, Pavel Fedin wrote:
Recently i have started using Insight (https://sourceware.org/insight/)
under Cygwin/X. Everything is quite good except one thing.
I remember once upon a time i worked on MacOS X. There, X server starts up
automatically if there is some program requesting it. On Cygwin i still have
to run it by hands. Is is possible to set up autostart of the X server ? May
be i just don't know how to do it ?
I believe this is arranged using launchd on OS X, which listens on the
socket the X server will use, and starts the X server when something
connects.
Unfortunately, there is no similar system facility on Windows.
You can achieve a somewhat similar effect by copying the X server
shortcut to the startup group to start it automatically at login, at the
cost of slowing down system startup somewhat.
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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