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Re: xinit is ignoring -displayfd option
- From: cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 08:50:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: xinit is ignoring -displayfd option
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- References: <59AF8B3C.2080501@gmail.com>
On 9/6/2017 1:44 AM, Matt D. wrote:
> I'm not sure at what release this bug appeared as my .display already
> existed with the value '0' which masked the problem. When I ran xinit on
> a system without a .display already present caused some of my scripts to
> fail as this file is no longer created due to the wrong fd being used.
>
> Here is the output of xinit:
>
> https://pastebin.com/raw/HJB9WGk7
>
I assume you want to point out the creation of "/home/.display" from the
xinit redirect. You should have just said so. You could have also just
pasted the contents of the output in the email instead of putting it in
pastebin.
<pastebin>
$xinit -- -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -noprimary -dpi 96
-nolisten tcp -displayfd 3 3>"/home/.display"
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.19.2.0
OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW DESKTOP-937VVAM 2.8.2(0.313/5/3) 2017-07-12 10:53
i686
OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 15063] (WoW64)
Package: version 1.19.2-1 built 2017-03-09
XWin was started with the following command line:
X -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -noprimary -dpi 96
-nolisten tcp -displayfd 5
</pastebin>
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