new start method questions

[mathog]

On 09-Jun-2016 17:55, mathog wrote:
> Last time around the start bat script was just:
> 
> @echo off
> set CYGXTOP=%~dp0
> C:
> chdir "%CYGXTOP%\var\log\xwin"
> move XWin.0.log.1 XWin.0.log.2
> move XWin.0.log XWin.0.log.1
> chdir "%CYGXTOP%\bin"
> start Xwin :0 -multiwindow
> 
> Is there some reason that a similar cut down bat file would not work
> with the current cygwin X11 server? (With "-listen tcp" plus a windows
> firewall rule to only let it talk to localhost.)

In a regular CMD shell navigated to the bin directory and did:

start Xwin :0 -multiwindow -listen tcp

and it worked.  So none of the current start script seems to be 
necessary if the only
goal is to start the X11 server.  It seems to work normally, at least by 
the criterion that xdpyinfo returns the same information as for the 
other starts.

On a related note - are there any situations where the X11 server itself 
(not something in its startup script) will start a subprocess and run a 
different binary?  For instance, some sort of font search operation, or 
perhaps some conditional load of an X11 feature which isn't normally 
started, or some funny kind of cut and paste operation on the Window 
side?

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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