Re: Automatic X server startup
Jon TURNEY <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.cygwin.xfree |
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On 27/05/2014 13:52, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Recently i have started using Insight (https://sourceware.org/insight/) > under Cygwin/X. Everything is quite good except one thing. > I remember once upon a time i worked on MacOS X. There, X server starts up > automatically if there is some program requesting it. On Cygwin i still have > to run it by hands. Is is possible to set up autostart of the X server ? May > be i just don't know how to do it ? I believe this is arranged using launchd on OS X, which listens on the socket the X server will use, and starts the X server when something connects. Unfortunately, there is no similar system facility on Windows. You can achieve a somewhat similar effect by copying the X server shortcut to the startup group to start it automatically at login, at the cost of slowing down system startup somewhat. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/