Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm

[Owen Rees]

--On 07 April 2005 14:21 +0200 Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> No. Startx uses xinit and xinit tries to connect to the xserver in the
> way  a client would do and repeats it until the server is ready.

That suggests another way to wait for the server. Run some suitably 
harmless (side-effect free) client in a loop until it succeeds before 
launching the xterm. "xrdb -query" seems a reasonable candidate.

-- 
Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK