[ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background[solution/patch]

[Jörg Schaible]

Alexander Gottwald wrote on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:00 PM:

> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 18:49 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>> 
>> run.exe is often used from Windows shortcuts to start programs like
>> XWin. Even the X-start-menu-icons uses it this way, A shortcut will
>> not work.
> 
> To clarify this: X-start-menu-icons won't be a showstopper
> since it can be easily adjusted. I'm more concerned about the
> shortcuts on user X's desktop like those on mine:

[snip]

Why don't drop it into /bin as well as in /usr/X11R6/bin ? Modern X11 distributions will eliminate the X11RX directory anyway and so might do the Cygwin version in some time.

- Jörg