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Re: change wallpaper periodly by cron?
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:15:29AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>Lucifer <lucifer@tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:20:10 +0200
>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>
>> CV>
>> CV> It's a limitation of service processes. You can only change it by setting
>> CV> the "Allow service to interact with desktop" property of the service.
>> CV>
>>
>> I enabled the "Allow service to interact with desktop" and it works now,
>> thank you. However, a DOS window titled as c:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
>> popped out. It's ugly. Can that be avoided?
>
>AFAIK, it cannot. It's the ugly side effect of interactive service(s) on
>Windows.
Actually, it may be better in cygwin-1.5.x due to some magic I added to
the tty code which cause an invisible console to be allocated.
Although, IIRC, Corinna may have had to change something to get it to work
right.
cgf
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