Cygwin/X and cygrunsrv
Hi all, Have a question to more experienced users. Is it possible to run Cygwin/X as service on my XP box? Currently I've added startxwin.bat to Windows Startup so it starts at the system startup. But I'd like to run X server using cygrunsrv like httpd2, ssh and cron. Although I'm not certain it's a good idea in general. Every piece of advice is welcome, I'd appreciate it. Take care, Tom -- 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/
Re: Cygwin/X and cygrunsrv
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Tomasz B?achowicz wrote: Hi all, Have a question to more experienced users. Is it possible to run Cygwin/X as service on my XP box? Currently I've added startxwin.bat to Windows Startup so it starts at the system startup. But I'd like to run X server using cygrunsrv like httpd2, ssh and cron. Although I'm not certain it's a good idea in general. Every piece of advice is welcome, I'd appreciate it. Tom, Contrary to the popular belief and the unfortunate naming, the X server is not really a server. It is an application that accepts requests from other applications (called the X clients) and draws them on the screen. This means that it needs to have access to the Windows desktop (which is one of the reasons it cannot successfully run as a service). You are probably better off with your current setup. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/
Re: Cygwin/X and cygrunsrv
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Tomasz Blachowicz wrote: Have a question to more experienced users. Is it possible to run Cygwin/X as service on my XP box? Currently I've added startxwin.bat to Windows Startup so it starts at the system startup. But I'd like to run X server using cygrunsrv like httpd2, ssh and cron. Although I'm not certain it's a good idea in general. Every piece of advice is welcome, I'd appreciate it. Tom, Contrary to the popular belief and the unfortunate naming, the X server is not really a server. Uh? And it just happens to be based on Xorg-X11 (previuosly XFree86). It is an application that accepts requests from other applications (called the X clients) and draws them on the screen. And the window manager is usually the X client sending requests. The user application goes to the middleman (window manager), which in Cygwin X is part of the server (but another window manager can be used optionally, like WindowMaker for instance). This means that it needs to have access to the Windows desktop (which is one of the reasons it cannot successfully run as a service). And the -i parameter of cygrunsrv wouldn't help because... You are probably better off with your current setup. It is probably not easy to do what the OP asked, and I haven't even tried but I think it is possible. First you have to know what you really want: running X as service will not magically produce a login window if you try to connect from another machine, and setting up gnome-session/xsm/ksmserver is probably not easy. But that is not a good objective anyway, if you wanted something like that you use any Unix OS. But, for an already logged in user, I think it just works (meaning a running X server will allow to open X applications). I do something similar, not a service that starts on boot, but a background X server that is running without the usual xterm that you can't close (the next step would be to test cygrunsrv with, and w/o, the -i option). -- René Berber -- 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/
