Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:11:01 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Brian Ford cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: inetd desktop interaction w/o console? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > I know this has been discussed lots before, but I just spent the last few > hours googling, archive searching, trying run.exe, etc. without finding a > solid answer. > > What are the known issues around allowing Cygwin's inetd to interact with > the desktop, but without showing the console window? > > It would be a real nice feature for us to just add that service option > and have it work without the distracting console window. So, I thought > I'd ping about the known issues before wasting more hours trying to get it > working. > > In the end, I am expecting to contribute a patch to inetd allowing this if > it is reasonably possible. So, I'm not looking for a handout, just a > jumping off point. > > Thanks. /usr/X11R6/bin/run.exe Also . HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/