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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50143515.9060100@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cd6cc2$072da6e0$1588f4a0$@de>
On 7/28/2012 9:08 AM, Paul Maier wrote:
>> The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that.
>> It's what I use for this purpose :-) ...
> I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry.
> But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9 to 1.7.15, run.exe only hides the window but not the task bar entry, when invoked from the
> Startup menu in some cases.
>
> This seems buggy, see my thread:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00473.html
> But I don't have the impression that a developer accepted this as bug.
>
> Do you have a suggestion how to avoid this situation?
I used to have difficulty like that with startxwin, but it does not
happen any more for me with xlaunch. It did look like a race condition
or something ... Eliot
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-28 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-26 22:33 Paul Maier
2012-07-26 22:46 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2012-07-27 12:19 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-07-28 12:18 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2012-07-28 12:58 ` Eliot Moss
2012-07-28 13:10 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2012-07-28 18:53 ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2012-08-06 13:07 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-07-28 18:48 ` Eliot Moss
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