FW: How to create an icon to startx with no extra CMD.EXE window

[xerces8]

If you just want a shell running, you can use this:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 5000 -fn 20 -bg black -fg white -sr -e bash --login -i
(I have that as a shortcut in my start menu)

(it is not xterm, but rxvt. It works without X.)

Regards,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: "Siegfried Heintze (Aditi)" <a-siehei@microsoft.com>
To: "cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:03:17 -0700
Subject: FW: How to create an icon to startx with no extra CMD.EXE window

> 
> Thank you for the responses regarding "-sb -sl 6000".
> 
> I had a quick launch icon that would execute "startx" in bash but that does not seem to use the
> startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat files. So I change my icon in my quick launch bar to this:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe /usr/bin/X11/startxwin.sh
> 
> So this starts the xterm with scroll bars and (I assume) 6000 lines of history. Hurray! Thanks!
> 
>  But I have this ugly console hanging around. When I kill it, it kills X as well. Is there a way
> to have an icon that does not create a superfluous console window?
> 
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
> 
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