Re: Is it possible to hide emacs-w32 console window?

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 5/29/2016 8:43 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> On 2016-05-29, Ken Brown wrote:
>
> > On 5/28/2016 5:08 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> > > emacs-w32 starts console window and that useless window disturbs during task
> > > switching (by Alt+TAB) and take space on TaskBar.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to hide emacs-w32 console window?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't know what console window you're talking about.  Exactly how do
> > you start emacs-w32?  I start it by typing 'emacs-w32 &' in a Cygwin terminal
> > (mintty), and there's no console window.
> Sorry I forgot to add this detail.
>
> I use Win+R emacs-w32 ENTER.

You can avoid the console window by using Cygwin's run.exe.  See the 
shortcut for the X server for an example of this.  (You do get a brief 
console window, but it immediately disappears.)

> I don't know if it is possible to link emacs-w32 with --subsystem=windows.

I don't either, and I'm not interested in experimenting with this 
without knowing what all the consequences would be.

Ken


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