startup scripts

[Ralf Habacker]

> Suhaib, Harold,
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> I'm not a specialist, but I've notice the following behaviour when I
> launch startxwin.(bat|sh) :
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> - icewm can't restart him self saying that an other window manager is
> present (true either with vtwm)

The same is with kwm, it seems to depend on cygwins execvp(). Perhaps cygwin
1.3.3 solves this problem, but I haven't checked this yet.

> - trying to start Xemacs with a special font from startxwin.(bat|sh),
> the font is not the one I've choose. I've verified that my copmmand
> line works in an xterm.
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> So, I've suspected that X server was not finish to start when xemacs
> command line ask it a font in the startup script. So, I've tried
> "startx" Xfree86 script supposing that the xinit call have the
> ability to launch ~/.xinitrc application when X server is ready. And
> the troubles with icewm and xemacs were solved. More over, because
> ~/.xinitrc ends with an exec icewm, when I stop icewm, the xserver
> stops correctly, that was not always true with startxwin.(bat|sh).
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> Do really think that it's necessary the provide a new X startup
> mechanism for cygwin-Xfree ?
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> Or, Is it possible to include the usage of xinit in startxwin.(bat|sh) ?
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> It's only questions, nothing more!
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> Luc
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