reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instance

[cygwinx2eran@tromer.org]

On 2004-03-04 18:02, Takuma Murakami wrote:

> > Perhaps there should be a switch that says "if the display already
> > exists, exit silently".
> I agree.  We should have an option like "-silent" or "-quiet".

That's not quite it -- I want to ignore a "display already exists"
error, but if some other fatal error prevents XWin from loading I want
to know about it (say, via the dialog box).


> Let's suppose Cygwin/X has -silent option as above: then I
> think startxwin.bat with -silent option is sufficient for your
> purpose.  It will start a server (which silently fails if there
> is the other) and then start some favorite applications.

This would spawn new instances of my favorite applications every time I
open an xterm. Not a pretty sight.

  Eran