xorg XWin.exe: Can I get rid of extra console?

["Walters, I (Iestyn) " <I dot Walters at rl dot ac dot uk>]

Hi guys, nice X server.

However, I have a problem with the latest xorg-x11 implementation that
didn't exist in the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-67 release and would be grateful
for some hints.

Previously, I had a windows shortcut to XWin.exe, together with the hotkey
combo "Ctrl+Alt+/". This meant that with a quick press of AltGr+/ (on a UK
keyboard) my whole X session would leap to the front. Nice.

When starting the latest XWin.exe from the shortcut, a standard Windows
console first appears with a bunch of messages in it.  Later the X
graphical window appears on top. Fine so far.

Unfortunately, Windoze attaches the hot-key combo to the console window,
and that leaps to the front instead of the root X window :-(.

I had a play with windows shortcuts, with cygstart, and a poke at the
source to no avail. Maybe a simple command-line option for XWin to not
create this console window? (I notice that "XWin -logfile blah" causes
mostly the same info to be logged in blah as appears on the console.)

Thanks for any pointers.




My cygwin info:

  Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.5.9
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 112
        Shared data: 4
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Thu Mar 18 23:05:18 EST 2004
        Shared id: cygwin1S4

  XFree86-base            4.3.0-11
  XFree86-bin             4.3.0-21
  XFree86-prog            4.3.0-21
  XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-68

  xorg-x11-base           6.7.0.0-6
  xorg-x11-bin            6.7.0.0-4
  xorg-x11-bin-dlls       6.7.0.0-4
  xorg-x11-bin-lndir      6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-devel          6.7.0.0-4
  xorg-x11-etc            6.7.0.0-1
  xorg-x11-fenc           6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-fnts           6.7.0.0-1
  xorg-x11-fscl           6.7.0.0-3
  xorg-x11-fsrv           6.7.0.0-1
  xorg-x11-libs-data      6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-man-pages      6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-man-pages-html 6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-nest           6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-vfb            6.7.0.0-2
  xorg-x11-xwin           6.7.0.0-3

Regards,
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