On 25/02/2015 14:30, GEORGE BARRICK wrote:
I have one small note for other folks who might like to run their system in a way similar to mine. I like to have xlaunch automatically start a single colored xterm for me (in multi-window mode). After that I just open more from the command line as it suits me. If I use the command line embedded in the installed xlaunch.lnk file:C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/xlaunch.exe it always prompts me through the tiresome "configure & start" GUI at the beginning. Adding the phrase -run ~/config/config.xlaunch at the end of that command line always gets ignored in favor of the "configure & start" GUI.
You need to quote the whole command line for bash after the -c, otherwise bash treats words after the first one as positional parameters.
However, getting this quotation passed correctly through run requires a little bit of gymnastics, but this should work:
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "xlaunch -run ~/config/config.xlaunch"
However, when I strip the invocation of the bash from that command: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xlaunch.exe -run ~/config/config.xlaunch the xlaunch goes right ahead to run the single xterm that's described in my ~/config/config.xlaunch file.
This is not quite equivalent as there is no login shell in the ancestry of whatever your config.xlaunch starts, so your ~/.profile may not have been read.
For that reason, using 'bash -l -c ""' is preferred and that's what start menu links that cygwin installs generally use.
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