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Two simple QQ about XWin
- From: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:46:47 +0100
- Subject: Two simple QQ about XWin
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
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