RE: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?

["Soong, SylokeJ" <SSoong at ALLEGROMICRO dot com>]

When I start using cygwin.bat, it merely starts up a bash in a simulated
unix env in an XP cmd window.
Then I have to run startxwin.sh, which starts my cygwin-x server on display
0.0.

After which I rlogin to real unix machines, setenv DISPLAY
mysillylaptop:0.0,
 to run graphical apps which throw Xwindows onto my cygwin-x server.
 
If I ever dared close my unabashedly bash XP cmd window,
all my X client windows would disappear.

The question that trebor(robert?) asks is
"Can we close the XP cmd window, without killing the local X server
process?"
because he probably started using cygwin.bat.

But if he started cygwin-x by clicking directly on
Drive:\<cygwin-home>\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat,
he would get an error msg,
"cygwin1.dll not found".

What he needs to do is,
Right click My Computer to append Drive:/<cygwin-home>/bin/
to his system path.

Now he would be able to click directly,
Drive:\<cygwin-home>\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat ,

and be a rather happy camper (provided he knows how
to set up his XP system path).

-----Original Message-----Trebor Sreyb wrote:

>Is there some way to run startx without opening a
>cygwin shell window? Or, alternatively, to exit the
>shell window after the X window manager has
>successfully started?
>
>Otherwise, I find myself having to leave open a cygwin
>shell window that is used for nothing other than
>kicking off startx - that window just sits there. 
>
>This is only a nuissance (adds an extra icon to the
>task bar), but if there's another way I'd like to
>know.
>
>I use cygwin on Win XP SP2.
>

Doesn't  your startxwin.bat file accomplish this?

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