> while working with kde/cygwin and xfree/cygwin I recognized a significant > timeout of xinit, after starting the x server and before starting the x > client relevant stuff. It seems that xinit goes into a timeout while > waiting for > the X process, because the delay does not depend on how long the xserver needs > (I recognized this on a very fast machine, on which the xserver only needs 1/2 > second to start). xinit waits then 5 seconds before starting the .xinitrc > script.
Looking a little deeper into the source shows that the timeout is about 15 sec, not only 5, and it seems that xinit does not recognizes the running x process. Ralf
