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Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instance
- From: cygwinx2eran at tromer dot org
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:05:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instance
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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