Re: Windows Batch File to start xterm on Cygwin/X 1.7.x

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 25/01/2010 22:53, Zheng-Da Tan wrote:
> I like to have one icon in Windows that I can click on to open a new
> xterm window:
>     - if the X server is not running, the icon would start X and launch
> a xterm window
>     - if the X server is running, it will simply open a new xterm
> window on the existing X server
>
> This was how it used to work by default in a very old version of
> Cygwin.  It had been broken once before (search silent-dup-error in
> the mailing list archives), fixed, and now broken again when
> startxwin.bat became startxwin.exe.

How about saying how it's broken, so it can be fixed, and we can get rid of 
horrible batch files for ever?

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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