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Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything
- From: Rudolf Kollien <Rudolf dot Kollien at kollien dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:19:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything
- Organization: www.kollien.de
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- Reply-to: Rudolf dot Kollien at kollien dot de
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Thanks a lot. Will give it a try. Unfortunately there are some Win98 boxes
around.
Think, i stay tuned. In the old XFree-releases the problem does not exist. But
i'm sure there will be a solution on X.org soon too. Why not?
Am Freitag, 9. April 2004 00:30 schrieb David Rothenberger:
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > What is the permanent solution to the problem? I don't know. I
>
> think it may be time to finish writing the batch file that just launches
> a bash shell script, but I haven't got time to work on that today.
>
> FWIW, I use setsid to launch without the DOS window. Works fine for me
> under 2k and XP.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> @echo off
> SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
>
> SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
>
> if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto OS_NT
>
> REM Windows 95/98/Me
> echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me
>
> goto STARTUP
>
> :OS_NT
>
> REM Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
> echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
>
> :STARTUP
>
> start /min sh -c "setsid startxwin.sh"
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Dave
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