On 7/17/20 7:46 AM, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
On 17/07/2020 13:48, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
At the moment I initiate a xterm session with a 4-line cmd script at the Cygwin
root directory as follows:
@bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2> nul
@timeout 4 > nul 2> nul
@bin\xterm -display :0.0 2> nul
@bin\kill -KILL -- -1
Not wishing to mend what isn't broken, can anybody recommend a slicker opener
(and closer)?
(All the lines, and all their components, seem to be essential.
Line 1 is a necessary precursor. Line 2 induces an apparently essential pause.
Line 3 opens the xterm session, which can then be progressed to its conclusion.
At which: resumption of the cmd script at line 4 kills the now redundant XWin
session.
Thus guaranteeing a neat finish with no straggling processes.)
Thank you for any easement! A one-liner would be perfect.
Jon Turney replied:
"xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- -nolock -multiwindow"
(Although you might want to use startx instead, as perhaps that will
behave better if an X server is already running for display :0)
Thank you! This works beautifully at the bash prompt without all the hassle
about on-ing and off-ing XWin so it is already a great easement.
So I tried rewriting as a one-line cmd script* at the Cygwin root directory:
@bin\xinit.exe bin\xterm -- -nolock -multiwindow
(and then variations beginning with start / run) and got an error message
ending in:
bin/xinit: giving up
bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
bin/xinit: server error
Is there some way I can incorporate your one line into a Windows command
single line
that starts the xterm process, rather than the 4-line Windows script at the top
of this post?
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You might try using forward slashes for the Cygwin portion of the command:
@bin\xinit.exe bin/xterm -- -nolock -multiwindow
^
Bob
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