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Re: starting x apps
- From: thomas graichen <list-cygwin dot xfree at spoiled dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:53:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: starting x apps
- Distribution: local
- Organization: spoiled dot org
- References: <20030123145008.2DFFFD0C.NOFFLE@tecklenburg2.spmtechnologies.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: thomas graichen <tgr at spoiled dot org>
- Reply-to: thomas graichen <tgr at spoiled dot org>
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