From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6807 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2012 12:18:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 6796 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2012 12:18:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_TX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mout.web.de (HELO mout.web.de) (212.227.17.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:17:55 +0000 Received: from lp21723 ([84.150.143.26]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LmLK6-1TTbll0KkE-00aDjY; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:17:51 +0200 From: "Paul Maier" To: "'cygwin-xfree'" Cc: References: <006501cd6b7e$4edcffd0$ec96ff70$@de> <50128548.4050107@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <50128548.4050107@dronecode.org.uk> Subject: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service? Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: <003101cd6cba$b2f1a470$18d4ed50$@de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 > > I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). > > I couldn't find any hint in the manual. > > > > Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? > > Possible? Yes. > [...] > > Running it from the "Startup" program group is the correct approach. > Hi Jon, running it from the Startup program group worked fine as long as my ~/.startxwinrc has been empty. But I had to add the line /bin/ico -r -obj cube -sleep .05 & to ~/.startxwinrc to fix http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-07/msg00012.html That workaround is perfect, but as a side effect, startxwin won't terminate any more; it blocks as long ico runs, and ico runs forever, so startxwin never terminates. This results in an annoying task bar entry staying there all day. This X Server task bar entry is (obviously) not being attached to any visible window or application, so this entry shouldn't exist in the task bar. Can you recommend me how to start the X Server without getting a task bar entry? Thank you & regards, Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/