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Re: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7
- From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:45:40 -0600
- Subject: Re: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7
- References: <806a89db0905151313o4f160a1fg8bc1693fb3ce111@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
The "two empty DOS windows" are conhost.exe sessions, according to Task Manager.
- Jim
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I have installed Windows 7 RC1 (64-bit) as well as Cygwin 1.7,
> including the Xorg stuff in the Cygwin setup-1.7.exe file
>
> I can start the X server OK, as well as xterm and xemacs.
>
> When I start an xterm by right-clicking on the X server icon in the
> system tray, in addition to the Xterm windows, I also get what appears
> to be two empty DOS windows - one with xwin.exe in the window title,
> one with xterm.exe in the window title. ?When I close the xterm, those
> two DOS windows also disappear.
>
> Can anyone speculate why this is happening?
>
> The system is running a clean install of all this new stuff.
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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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