Re: FW: How to create an icon to startx with no extra CMD.EXE window

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:

> Thank you for the responses regarding "-sb -sl 6000".
>
> I had a quick launch icon that would execute "startx" in bash but that does not seem to use the startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat files. So I change my icon in my quick launch bar to this:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe /usr/bin/X11/startxwin.sh
>
> So this starts the xterm with scroll bars and (I assume) 6000 lines of history. Hurray! Thanks!
>
> But I have this ugly console hanging around. When I kill it, it kills X as well. Is there a way to have an icon that does not create a superfluous console window?

You could start an application (including xterm) which is initially 
iconified.  That would move it out of sight.  This should work:

	xterm -iconic

The startxwin.sh script needs _something_ that is holding onto the shell
script, to prevent it from exiting.

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