Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:59:44 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: change wallpaper periodly by cron? Message-ID: <20030821035944.GB21811@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030820140025.325F.LUCIFER@tsinghua.org.cn> <20030820082010.GB12392@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030821095027.2B3C.LUCIFER@tsinghua.org.cn> <20030821031529.GH11470@emcb.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030821031529.GH11470@emcb.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:15:29AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >Lucifer wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:20:10 +0200 >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> CV> >> CV> It's a limitation of service processes. You can only change it by setting >> CV> the "Allow service to interact with desktop" property of the service. >> CV> >> >> I enabled the "Allow service to interact with desktop" and it works now, >> thank you. However, a DOS window titled as c:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe >> popped out. It's ugly. Can that be avoided? > >AFAIK, it cannot. It's the ugly side effect of interactive service(s) on >Windows. Actually, it may be better in cygwin-1.5.x due to some magic I added to the tty code which cause an invisible console to be allocated. Although, IIRC, Corinna may have had to change something to get it to work right. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/