how to start properly the X server at session start without the X menu?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 20/12/2015 07:07, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to have the X server launched automatically when I start a new
> windows session (windows 7). I had the following shortcut in my
> Startup folder
> Target: C:\Softs\cygwin64\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c
> /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
> Start in: C:\Softs\cygwin64\bin
>
> Then I was able to start any X program from command line. That woked
> fine. By the way it seems that the DISPLAY environment variable was
> 127.0.0.1:0.0.
>
> This does not work anymore.
>
> I have found that in Cygwin-X menu, there is an Xwin Server shortcut
> with the following:
> Target: C:\Softs\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c
> "cd; /usr/bin/startxwin"
> Start in: C:\Softs\cygwin64
>
> This seems to work differently:
> - the DISPLAY variable has to be just :0 to work from command line,
> - there is an additionnal tray icon with X menu with many applications.
>
> I do not want the menu and I would like to have again the X server
> started automatically without manually change the DISPLAY variable.
> How can I come back to the old behavior?


If you set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 than you need
   startxwin -listen
as '-nolisten tcp' is now the default

"startxwin.exe" was replaced by the script "startxwin"
for that the old shurtcut was replaced by the new one.

If extra program are started that you don't want
looks on the contents of
  ".startxwinrc"


Further reading:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-10/msg00111.html
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html


> Regards,
>
> Frédéric

Regards
Marco

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