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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:59:44 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: change wallpaper periodly by cron?
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:15:29AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>Lucifer <lucifer AT tsinghua DOT org DOT cn> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:20:10 +0200
>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> 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

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