Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/25/2007 2:52 PM, René Berber wrote: >> Nicolas Saunier wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> I am using emacs with output to X11, and there is no error about not >>> finding a display. It just crashes rightaway, but often works at the >>> second try. >> >> Things may improve if you use cygserver and env. var. "CYGWIN=server".
I forgot to say: and restart X11. > Can you elaborate on this? I've looked at the documentation for > cygserver and can't see why it would be relevant. I confess, however, > that I didn't understand much of the documentation beyond the first > paragraph. The latter says: > > Cygserver is a program which is designed to run as a background service. > It provides Cygwin applications with services which require security > arbitration or which need to persist while no other cygwin application > is running. > > Does emacs require such services? X11 improves with cygserver running, emacs might improve, I'm not sure since I have not tested without cygserver. If you currently don't run cygserver you can see in the X startup log (/tmp/XWin.log) a warning about IPC not being present and something else (I don't have the problem so I can't see it, just remember it). -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
