xWin/Startx Messages re-direction

[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Balaji V. Iyer wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>  	I use xwin with Cygwin and everytime I run the messages are printed
> on the cygwin screen. Is there a way I can stop it or (redirect it to
> /dev/null). The real problem happens when I am working on the cygwin window
> and I get interrupted with these messages.
>
> I run xwin with this line:
> XWin -multiwindow -silent-dup-error -nowinkill -unixkill
  ^
Use "run XWin ...".

> Here is a small example of a message:
>
> $ Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-4
>
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@XXXXXX.XXX

It's usually not a good idea to post raw email addresses on public mailing
lists if you can avoid it...
HTH,
	Igor
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