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starting x apps
- From: thomas graichen <list-cygwin dot xfree at spoiled dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:50:08 +0100
- Subject: starting x apps
- Distribution: local
- Organization: spoiled dot org
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: thomas graichen <tgr at spoiled dot org>
- Reply-to: thomas graichen <tgr at spoiled dot org>
hello,
just played around a bit with the new multiwindow option (a great
thanks to all who made that possible) i noticed one thing:
i'm having an multiwindow-xserver running, having set the DISPLAY
and an extended PATH (by cygin/bin and cygwin/X11R6/bin) in my
w2k environment and can this way get for instance an xterm (or
any other x-app) to appear on the screen as multiwindow-window
by simply clicking at the executable in the explorer - the
strange thing is that i always also get another empty (looks
like an empty cygwin bash or cmd) window for each app ... the same
applies if i want to start for example an xterm from a batch-file
using
start /B xterm.exe -some-options
as soon as i start the .bat from the explorer or a menu or
something like that i get that extra empty window (i.e. the
/B flag of "start" seems to be ignored) - if i call the same
.bat from within a cygwin bash window or an cmd window
everythings works as expected: with /B no extra window - without
an extra window
am i doing something wrong here? is there any trick to simply
get a button somwhere which gives me on a click an multiwindow
xterm (and nothing else :o)?
a lot of thanks in advance
t
--
thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached, not
when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no
longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery