-silent-dup-error command line parameter not working?

[David Weintraub]

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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