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RE: [ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background[solution/patch]
- From: Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:25:35 +0200
- Subject: RE: [ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background[solution/patch]
Alexander Gottwald wrote on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:00 PM:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 18:49 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>
>> run.exe is often used from Windows shortcuts to start programs like
>> XWin. Even the X-start-menu-icons uses it this way, A shortcut will
>> not work.
>
> To clarify this: X-start-menu-icons won't be a showstopper
> since it can be easily adjusted. I'm more concerned about the
> shortcuts on user X's desktop like those on mine:
[snip]
Why don't drop it into /bin as well as in /usr/X11R6/bin ? Modern X11 distributions will eliminate the X11RX directory anyway and so might do the Cygwin version in some time.
- Jörg