From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22377 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2012 13:07:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 22368 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Aug 2012 13:07:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:07:36 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.1.103]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 06 Aug 2012 14:07:28 +0100 Message-ID: <501FC193.1060602@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:07:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: Paul Maier 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2012-08/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 28/07/2012 14:08, Paul Maier wrote: >> >> The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. >> It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... >> > > thank you for your input. 8-) > > 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? You might try the patched run from [1] and see if that improves matters. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/