Subject: XEmacs running as a gnuserv daemon. From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; To: XEmacs Beta List <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:01:18 +0000 (GMT) Reply-To: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; Hi, Umm, I considered sending this to xemacs-design, but on reflection, it's probably not something that needs huge changes. I'd like to be able to run an XEmacs process, with an associated GNUserv, as a daemon, not necessarily with any open frames. Currently, to achieve something like the following, I do this, where `daemon' does what the corresponding 4.4BSD library function does, and Xvfb launches a "fake" Xserver; $ daemon Xvfb -screen 0 50x50x1 :30 $ echo '(setq inhibit-startup-message t)' >> ~/.xemacs/init.el $ DISPLAY=:30 daemon xemacs wait til I see gnuserv in the process list, and connect to it using gnuclient. Then, when my network connection goes down, I can reconnect, and go back to what I was doing with minimal hassle. What would be needed to be done to support this? I suppose a "-daemon" option, with a warning in the docs that the process will exit if gnuserv-start isn't specified in the init file, or using -f . Thanks, Aidan Kehoe -- "I have heard the swelling cry of the English speaking peoples of the world, and it tells me their cause is served best by flaming the few complacent asses on usenet." -- T. Samant, 29 June 1997