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Can I close the startx cygwin shell?
- From: Trebor Sreyb <tsreyb at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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.
NOTE: I also tried doing the following from Win XP
Start->Run:
c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
but this also opens up an unwanted window that must
remain open.
Thanks,
-Bob
Andover, MA
USA
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