Re: Automatic X server startup

2014-07-03 Thread Matt D.
I know this thread is a bit old now but I just wanted to mention my solution. I've added X to start in a separate screen in my .bash_profile. That way every time I log into Cygwin, X is always available. It's kind of like the previous suggestion of adding it to Windows startup, but I have it

Re: Automatic X server startup

2014-06-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/05/2014 13:57, Pavel Fedin wrote: 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. But it should be possible to make xlib

RE: Automatic X server startup

2014-05-28 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! 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. But it should be possible to make xlib a little bit more smart,

Automatic X server startup

2014-05-27 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! 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

Re: Automatic X server startup

2014-05-27 Thread Eliot Moss
On 5/27/2014 8:52 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello! 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

Re: Automatic X server startup

2014-05-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
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