Two simple QQ about XWin

[Harold L Hunt II]

Fergus,

I have always recommended using startxwin.bat to start Cygwin/XFree86. 
Please see the following section in the User's Guide:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting


Of course, everyone is free to do as they choose.  On the other hand, no 
one sends in patches for the startx stuff, so it is basically 
unsupported since I don't know what to do with it.

Harold

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> Q1. Can anybody tell me what startup sequence (another/ different command
> line switch?)  is equivalent to
> 
>     Start -> Run -> start XWin -multiwindow
> then
>     point to the System Tray and choose "Show Root Window"
> 
> please? Thank you!
> 
> Q2. I've compared
> 
>     $ set > vars.list
> 
> both when XWin is running and when not, expecting a small difference in env
> vars (or something). But all that has changed are PIDs. I want to be able to
> query the O/S to ask whether X is running or not. Is there a way of doing
> this, please? Apart from say ps -a | grep XWin. Thank you!
> 
> Fergus
> 
> P.S. There are so many ways of starting Cygwin up ... there are often
> questions on the list How Do You Start Yours? For a non-X system I use
> "rxvt -e bash" with presentation options picked up from ~/.Xdefaults. For X
> it seems to have to be a two-liner
> 
>     start XWin -multiwindow # see Q1 above for what I really want
>     run rxvt -display :0.0 -e bash
> 
> for a nice sparse system. I am not wild about the default startx. Any
> advance on this for a nice neat rxvt session in an X environment? Any
> possibility of a one-liner that I'm missing?
> 
> Fergus
>