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RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm

From: Owen Rees <owen dot rees at hp dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:29:20 +0100
Subject: RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
References: <B74CF8E243E50A43B2562370EBD9DBEC4847AF@heis-2000server.heis.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504071415580.31616@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

--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

References:
- RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
  - From: Phil Betts
- RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
  - From: Alexander Gottwald

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