Icon initiation

Icon initiation

[Darryl Scott]

Hi!

This is probably in the docs but I fail to see it. That's the apology out 
the way now the question.

Can the cygwin X server be invoked without an on screen bulletin and then 
an icon clicked which executes an application script to make use of the 
Xserver? If yes how?

i.e.

start X server without bulletin, just the "I am live" icon.

Click application icon -> runs script that initiates an X application.

etc for other application icons.

Thanks in anticipation.



Kind regards,


Darryl Scott

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Re: Icon initiation

[Harold L Hunt II]

Darryl,

Just start the Cygwin/X X Server (XWin.exe) in multi-window mode, which 
has been the default in startxwin.bat for months.  Take a look at 
startxwin.bat, then feel free to REM out the line that starts an xterm 
if you do not want it to do this.  You can install the XFree86-bin-icons 
package from Cygwin's setup.exe to get links to programs in your start 
menu.  You can also put an .XWinrc file in your home directory and use 
it to create application shortcuts on the tray icon menu for Cygwin/X. 
Here is an example .XWinrc file that you can put in your home directory 
(be sure to rename it to .XWinrc):

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/example.XWinrc

Hope that helps,

Harold

Darryl Scott wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This is probably in the docs but I fail to see it. That's the apology 
> out the way now the question.
> 
> Can the cygwin X server be invoked without an on screen bulletin and 
> then an icon clicked which executes an application script to make use of 
> the Xserver? If yes how?
> 
> i.e.
> 
> start X server without bulletin, just the "I am live" icon.
> 
> Click application icon -> runs script that initiates an X application.
> 
> etc for other application icons.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Darryl Scott
> 
> Profile Product Costing Ltd
> The Old Vicarage, Market Place, Castle Donington, DE74 2JB, United Kingdom
> Telephone: +44 (0) 1332 856972  FAX: +44 (0) 1332 810769  Mobile +44 (0) 
> 7808 078388
> 
> 
>