suggestion for setup.exe: on quiet mode start window minimized option

suggestion for setup.exe: on quiet mode start window minimized option

[Roger Pack]

Today I wanted to script an unattended install of cygwin.
It works well.  However, I also wanted to be able to do it without
showing a window to the user at all.
Suggestion/feature request:
for --quiet-mode start minimized, or perhaps add  a "--start-minimized" option.
Cheers.
-roger-

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RE: suggestion for setup.exe: on quiet mode start window minimized option

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Roger Pack sent the following at Friday, August 28, 2015 1:29 PM
>Today I wanted to script an unattended install of cygwin. It works well.
>However, I also wanted to be able to do it without showing a window to
>the user at all. Suggestion/feature request: for --quiet-mode start
>minimized, or perhaps add a "--start-minimized" option. Cheers. -roger-

How do you start setup?  Maybe one of the following will work for you.

A Windows shortcut can be set up to start minimized.  My impression is
that one can use and mechanism to launch a Windows shortcut and then
Windows will follow the instructions ("Start in:", "Run:", etc.) in the
shortcut.

In cmd:
    start /min

From a command line (though not a bash shell when cygwin, bash, or maybe
mintty are being updated):
    cygstart --minimize
or
    cmd /c start /min

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

Re: suggestion for setup.exe: on quiet mode start window minimized option

[Roger Pack]

On 8/28/15, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:
> Roger Pack sent the following at Friday, August 28, 2015 1:29 PM
>>Today I wanted to script an unattended install of cygwin. It works well.
>>However, I also wanted to be able to do it without showing a window to
>>the user at all. Suggestion/feature request: for --quiet-mode start
>>minimized, or perhaps add a "--start-minimized" option. Cheers. -roger-
>
> How do you start setup?  Maybe one of the following will work for you.
>
> A Windows shortcut can be set up to start minimized.  My impression is
> that one can use and mechanism to launch a Windows shortcut and then
> Windows will follow the instructions ("Start in:", "Run:", etc.) in the
> shortcut.
>
> In cmd:
>     start /min
>
> From a command line (though not a bash shell when cygwin, bash, or maybe
> mintty are being updated):
>     cygstart --minimize
> or
>     cmd /c start /min

Thanks that did it!

For followers, I ended up using

start /min /wait setup-x86.exe -P ...

(since I wanted to wait for it to terminate before proceeding in my
batch script, like it does when run as straight setup-x86.exe).

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