System tray menu tuning & Xwin0.log in mintty console with startx

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 14:58:00 GMT 2016


On 25/07/2016 22:14, pigreco erre wrote:
> Hello Marco,
> Excuse me but I don't specify before that I try to use Cygwin-Portable version that I find on the web.

This explain why the menu was talking german
http://www.cybesystems.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&view=download&id=6:cygwinportable-1-0-paf&catid=2&Itemid=101

But you should rise the issues with the author.

Here we only support the full version
https://www.cygwin.com/

> I put it in my  pendrive. I use in various exam  the program VIM EMACS & GCC so to have a them in portable cyg version  is very confortable.
> Sorry if I forgot to add this information :-(
> However, I have essentially only one problem:
> when I run "startx" on mintty bash environment I see on the screen like a splash log file directly. Why?
> What can I erase the echoin on the screen when it execs the script "startx?"
> I don't reach to put off the stdout on the screen when I call "startx".

Don't start the X server from mintty or open more than one
Mintty windows.

> Could I solve this?
> (take into account that there is a difference with startxwin.
> When I run "startxwin",It starts without echo-splash on the screen the X-server message).
> With reference to the other question, I solve it.
> Thank you again
> Alessandro
>

My solution on USB disk is a link in the Cygwin root dir
with "Target"

   E:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec 
/usr/bin/startxwin"

and with "Start in"

   E:\cygwin64\bin

Regards
Marco

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