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RE: starting x apps


Thomas,

What version of Windows are you running?

Harold

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of thomas graichen
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:53 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: starting x apps


one more addition: this is not multiwindow specific - it only
comes to view there, because with multiwindow one comes to the
idea to simply start an xterm from an win menu or button ...
just to make this clear

t

thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> wrote:
> 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

-- 
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


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