From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27846 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2012 18:53:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 27835 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2012 18:53:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,MISSING_HEADERS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mdc1.cs.umass.edu (HELO csmail.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:53:29 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.6] (c-71-192-247-69.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [71.192.247.69]) by csmail.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D848780001F257441; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:53:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50143515.9060100@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:53:00 -0000 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service? References: <006501cd6b7e$4edcffd0$ec96ff70$@de> <50128548.4050107@dronecode.org.uk> <003101cd6cba$b2f1a470$18d4ed50$@de> <5013E1BA.7050805@cs.umass.edu> <000001cd6cc2$072da6e0$1588f4a0$@de> In-Reply-To: <000001cd6cc2$072da6e0$1588f4a0$@de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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/msg00029.txt.bz2 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 -- 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/