Re: Hide fbpanel icon

[AC <cygwin62y9@acarver.net>]

On 2015-08-13 10:06, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 13/08/2015 16:48, AC wrote:
>> I just updated my cygwin install with X at 1.17.2-2 and now the small
>> panel icon shows up in the upper left of my screen with no task bar icon
>> and now way to remove it.  Prior to the upgrade I was able to close that
>> button (by right clicking the "panel" entry in the Windows task bar
>> which left the x server running.
>>
>> Is there a way to get rid of that icon?  I only ever use the system tray
>> icon and the fbpanel icon is always in the way of desktop icons.  I
>> can't seem to move it anywhere either.
>>
>> If I comment out fbpanel in startxwinrc then nothing loads (I don't
>> normally have an xterm come up, I just want the server running and
>> waiting).
> 
> If your /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc mentions fbpanel, you don't have the
> latest version (see [1]), so maybe try updating or reinstalling the
> xinit package?
> 
> If you have a custom ~/.startxwinrc, then base it on the current
> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc and end it with 'exec
> /usr/bin/xwin-xdg-menu', or even 'exec sleep infinity' if you don't like
> that.
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html

Interesting, I'm using the global startxwinrc and my xinit package is
already 1.3.4-9 yet fbpanel is still in there and there's no mention of
xwin-xdg-menu in it yet I do have xwin-xdg-menu installed (20150708-1).
 I do not have a custom startxwinrc in my home directory.

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