Re: starting x apps

[thomas graichen <list-cygwin dot xfree at spoiled dot org>]

windows 2000 (german version), btw. using the run.exe coming with
cygwin as suggested by someone else here helped - this way i also
get no extra window (i.e. using run.exe xy instead of start /B xy
in batch files)

a lot of thanks in advance

t

"Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Thomas,

> What version of Windows are you running?

> Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of thomas graichen
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:53 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: starting x apps


> one more addition: this is not multiwindow specific - it only
> comes to view there, because with multiwindow one comes to the
> idea to simply start an xterm from an win menu or button ...
> just to make this clear

> t

> thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> wrote:
>> hello,

>> just played around a bit with the new multiwindow option (a great
>> thanks to all who made that possible) i noticed one thing:

>> i'm having an multiwindow-xserver running, having set the DISPLAY
>> and an extended PATH (by cygin/bin and cygwin/X11R6/bin) in my
>> w2k environment and can this way get for instance an xterm (or
>> any other x-app) to appear on the screen as multiwindow-window
>> by simply clicking at the executable in the explorer - the
>> strange thing is that i always also get another empty (looks
>> like an empty cygwin bash or cmd) window for each app ... the same
>> applies if i want to start for example an xterm from a batch-file
>> using

>>   start /B xterm.exe -some-options

>> as soon as i start the .bat from the explorer or a menu or
>> something like that i get that extra empty window (i.e. the
>> /B flag of "start" seems to be ignored) - if i call the same
>> .bat from within a cygwin bash window or an cmd window
>> everythings works as expected: with /B no extra window - without
>> an extra window

>> am i doing something wrong here? is there any trick to simply
>> get a button somwhere which gives me on a click an multiwindow
>> xterm (and nothing else :o)?

>> a lot of thanks in advance

>> t

>> -- 
>> thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached, not
>> when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no
>> longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery

> -- 
> thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached, not
> when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no
> longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery


-- 
thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached, not
when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no
longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery