Re: Trouble getting a windowed X

[Henry Camacho <hfc at ciorent dot com>]

Thanks....that was it. Stuck in the Windows world I didn't even think of 
&.  It worked perfectly.

HFC



At 11:08 AM 11/24/2004, you wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Henry Camacho wrote:
> >
> >> run X.
> >>
> >> The server starts but the windowed screen doesn't show up.
> >>
> >> *** Here is the bottomline question.  How can I get an Xserver running 
> when
> >> I issue the command "X" and to have it detach from rxvt.  ***
> >>
> >> I've tried to use XWin.exe with a number of options, but I have yet to
> >> duplicate what simply X does with no arguments.
> >> I am running Windows XP SP2 with 3 Monitors.  I only want one monitor in
> >> use for XWindows.
> >
> >This is a small problem with the run utility. It hides every normal 
> looking window.
> >You can try the nodecoration mode instead. You will not get the window 
> borders but
> >you get no console and the window is shown *g*
>
> Wouldn't just running X via either:
>
>         X&
>
> or
>         setsid X
>
> do what is required?  Then you can exit the rxvt window.  You might even 
> be able
> to make a shortcut that does a bash -c "setsid X" to avoid running rxvt.
>
> cgf

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