On 2004-03-04 18:02, Takuma Murakami wrote: > > Perhaps there should be a switch that says "if the display already > > exists, exit silently". > I agree. We should have an option like "-silent" or "-quiet".
That's not quite it -- I want to ignore a "display already exists" error, but if some other fatal error prevents XWin from loading I want to know about it (say, via the dialog box). > Let's suppose Cygwin/X has -silent option as above: then I > think startxwin.bat with -silent option is sufficient for your > purpose. It will start a server (which silently fails if there > is the other) and then start some favorite applications. This would spawn new instances of my favorite applications every time I open an xterm. Not a pretty sight. Eran