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

[Sergei Pachkov]

Can you shortly describe start xserver as service?

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Sergei Pachkov


Randy Brown:
> I can send you a pdf of our setup doc, if you'd like.  Should I use 
> the gmail address listed here?
>
> Randy
>
> David Weintraub wrote:
>> 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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