Re: Cygwin/X and cygrunsrv

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Tomasz B?achowicz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Have a question to more experienced users. Is it possible to run
> Cygwin/X as service on my XP box? Currently I've added startxwin.bat
> to Windows Startup so it starts at the system startup. But I'd like to
> run X server using cygrunsrv like httpd2, ssh and cron. Although I'm
> not certain it's a good idea in general.
>
> Every piece of advice is welcome, I'd appreciate it.

Tom,

Contrary to the popular belief and the unfortunate naming, the X server is
not really a server.  It is an application that accepts requests from
other applications (called the X clients) and draws them on the screen.
This means that it needs to have access to the Windows desktop (which is
one of the reasons it cannot successfully run as a service).  You are
probably better off with your current setup.
	Igor
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