Windows Batch File to start xterm on Cygwin/X 1.7.x

Windows Batch File to start xterm on Cygwin/X 1.7.x

[Zheng-Da Tan]

I like to have one icon in Windows that I can click on to open a new
xterm window:
   - if the X server is not running, the icon would start X and launch
a xterm window
   - if the X server is running, it will simply open a new xterm
window on the existing X server

This was how it used to work by default in a very old version of
Cygwin.  It had been broken once before (search silent-dup-error in
the mailing list archives), fixed, and now broken again when
startxwin.bat became startxwin.exe.  So I've put together this batch
file that makes things work again on the latest version of Cygwin
1.7.1

$ cat startCygwinX.bat
@ECHO OFF

SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/bin

tasklist | \WINDOWS\system32\find.exe "XWin.exe"
if errorlevel 1 (
%RUN% bash.exe -l -c startxwin.exe
) ELSE (
%RUN% xterm -sb -rightbar -bg black -fg white +tb -sl 1000 -e /usr/bin/bash -l
)

Point a Windows icon to this batch file above, and you have one icon
to do it all.

I hope this is helpful to someone out there!

Best regards,

-- 
tzd.

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Re: Windows Batch File to start xterm on Cygwin/X 1.7.x

[Jon TURNEY]

On 25/01/2010 22:53, Zheng-Da Tan wrote:
> I like to have one icon in Windows that I can click on to open a new
> xterm window:
>     - if the X server is not running, the icon would start X and launch
> a xterm window
>     - if the X server is running, it will simply open a new xterm
> window on the existing X server
>
> This was how it used to work by default in a very old version of
> Cygwin.  It had been broken once before (search silent-dup-error in
> the mailing list archives), fixed, and now broken again when
> startxwin.bat became startxwin.exe.

How about saying how it's broken, so it can be fixed, and we can get rid of 
horrible batch files for ever?

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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