xterm is a console program?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Early,

Early Ehlinger wrote:

> I tried setting up a "Quick Launch" shortcut directly to xterm.exe and was
> surprised to see that it comes up with a console window.
> 
> The workaround of course is to set up the shortcut to set the shortcut going
> to C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe and let run.exe launch xterm.
> 
> My question is, why not let xterm be an honest-to-goodness Windows subsystem
> application?  A simple WinMain that parses GetCommandLine and calls main()
> would do the trick, I think.  Is this something that has been considered
> before?
> 

There isn't a specific reason not to, given that you can preserve all 
functionality by making it a Win32 app.  However, we have chosen the 
path of least resistance, which is to do nothing.  I certainly won't 
stop anyone from putting time and effort into this to make it like you 
describe.

Harold