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Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Paul Maier <svn-user at web dot de>
- Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:07:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?
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On 28/07/2012 14:08, Paul Maier wrote:
>>
>> The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that.
>> It's what I use for this purpose :-) ...
>>
>
> thank you for your input. 8-)
>
> I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry.
> But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9 to 1.7.15, run.exe only hides the window but not the task bar entry, when invoked from the
> Startup menu in some cases.
>
> This seems buggy, see my thread:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00473.html
> But I don't have the impression that a developer accepted this as bug.
>
> Do you have a suggestion how to avoid this situation?
You might try the patched run from [1] and see if that improves matters.
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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