Get cygwin X startup window console in notification area?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/10/2009 05:02 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Dear cygcin community --
>
> Here's a little thing that's been bugging me a long time but that
> I've not been able to figure out.
>
> I start X under cygwin using a Windows shortcut to
> C;\cygwin\bin\bash.exe where I have edited the target to add
> -login -c "/usr/bin/startx -- -unixkill -clipboard -multimonitors"
>
> When I run it, I get a icon for X windows (desired) but also a
> taskbar icon for the bash console (the one that is running
> startx). I'd prefer that it be a *notification area* icon, which
> I can have out of the way, but click on to see if I really want
> to see the output from that console. It seems that being a
> "notification area thing" is a property not readily controlled
> from the Windows user interface. Any notion of what I can do
> here? I am certainly willing to put the stuff into a .bat file
> if that would somehow help ...

There is a separate list for Cygwin X issues - cygwin-xfree.

> My guess is either that this is hard, or it's easy and I've
> overlooked something simple (or something obscure) ...

It's not built-in if that's what you mean.

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