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Re: Starting X server and checkX
- From: Holger Krull <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:18:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: Starting X server and checkX
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.58.0707241619001.15777@ax0rm1.roma1.infn.it>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Angelo Graziosi schrieb:
> Following this discussion
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-07/msg00131.html
>
> I have tried to modify the script in this way (to start X+urxvt):
....
> When X is running, 'checkX' return 0 (from checkX --help), so WHY
>
> A B
> /usr/bin/checkX || start_XWin
>
> should work ?
My guess is, you have to set DISPLAY before you do checkX. How else would it know which X11 Server to search if it was not started as a child?
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