X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject
	:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
	 q=dns; s=default; b=LOVy7MRdfi4cQT/xczu2s8LQRLOhDUcwJFhaxV/tJJB
	vWIvsNljhiPRlHkJMjdFtiwD64XHrUw/xkf1HwGhgKPcC/WFNUgZeXcD42cT5NlK
	iN+PqWCEJwhOTK3o0OWgiroJByD1vUjK7T7qKB/sJpCoLeCVyQbPiabObkG1ar6c
	=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject
	:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
	 s=default; bh=gfJgbMjP5Sg3+JUiQl3sXDxUDx0=; b=ZL4HLjYM2AfhTDCMg
	Thi0LivnuWnK3lUW5D/BsWP93lmY+j0phZ37jHzXkYO7H7muinZdMotf9VIXNl1r
	KQ12vfu4X9WWa/lwIlKW159ReWKFed+Owp7ghBRAXQ3nSEU3qmyLPxwrCpIwPo4S
	eppKj1ISuMwmvvg8BuMFxjRoTY=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1
Message-ID: <51FF17D1.2070303@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:11:13 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding
References: <20130803175444 DOT 3628 AT binki> <51FEFA60 DOT 2050707 AT cygwin DOT com> <20130805105021 DOT 1776 AT binki> <51FF0CF0 DOT 30807 AT cygwin DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <51FF0CF0.30807@cygwin.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 8/4/2013 10:24 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/4/2013 9:50 PM, wynf... wrote:
>> It is clearly written in my message, in fact in imported it from the
>> checkX documentation. What part of the problem I'm describing is not
>> clear
>> to you?
>>
>> "DESCRIPTION
>>           Determines  if  X is installed, Xserver is running on
>> specified DISPLAY
>>           and will accept clients. Returns 0 if yes, nonzero otherwise""
>>
>> In fact:
>>    checkX :0 returns a false when, but the X11 server on :0 will
>> accept client
>> requests.
>
> I guess I'm not clear why you're not using the syntax Chuck recommends in
> his message (see the link to it that I included above).  He stated you need
> to use the '--display' flag.  Here's a quote from Chuck in that message:

To be fair, checkX *should* use the $DISPLAY variable if --display/-d is 
not specified on the command line.  This appears, from reading the email 
thread, to be a real issue.

However, I won't be able to investigate further for at least a 
week...and will have only intermittent internet access until then.

--
Chuck


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple