Hi, I am just wondering if anyone understands why XWin detaches/runs in the background, when launched from Windows Command Prompt.
This being different to when run from Mintty. Here's what happens with my Mintty invocation, which stays in the foreground: | $ XWin :1 -nolisten tcp -ac -multiwindow | Welcome to the XWin X Server | Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project | Release: 1.21.1.9 | OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 pc-w10 3.4.10-1.x86_64 2023-11-29 12:12 UTC x86_64 | OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 19045] x64 | Package: version 21.1.9-1 built 2023-12-10 | | XWin was started with the following command line: | | XWin :1 -nolisten tcp -ac -multiwindow | | (II) xorg.conf is not supported | (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information | winUpdateDpi - primary monitor native DPI x 96 y 96 ... | winClipboardProc - xcb_connect () returned and successfully opened the display. Here's what happens if I invoke tigervnc-server from Windows Command Prompt, where it stays in the forgeground and I can terminate with Ctrl-C: | C:\Users\shaddy>C:\PublicData\sw.portapps\cygwin.x86_64\bin\Xvnc :2 -nolisten tcp -ac -geometry 900x600 -SecurityTypes=None | | Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 - built Dec 30 2017 22:15:31 | Copyright (C) 1999-2017 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) | See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. | Underlying X server release 11906000, The X.Org Foundation | | | Sat Jan 20 19:34:43 2024 | vncext: VNC extension running! | vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5902 | vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 | MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support But here's what happens when I run that first command line from Windows Command Prompt. No output and the command returns, though the server is running (including with an icon tray clickable): | C:\Users\shaddy>C:\PublicData\sw.portapps\cygwin.x86_64\bin\XWin :1 -nolisten tcp -ac -multiwindow | | C:\Users\shaddy> Is this special detection and handling in the main() (or whatever entrypoint is applicable)? -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
