Re: Cygwin/X - Query: why invoking from cmd backgrounds?

2024-01-20 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 20/01/2024 08:55, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: Hi, I am just wondering if anyone understands why XWin detaches/runs in the background, when launched from Windows Command Prompt. I assume this is due to XWin being marked as a GUI, not console application (to stop it popping up a useless

Re: Cygwin/X - Query: why invoking from cmd backgrounds?

2024-01-20 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 20/01/2024 09:55, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: Hi, I am just wondering if anyone understands why XWin detaches/runs in the background, when launched from Windows Command Prompt. Hi Shaddy, Only a guess But here's what happens when I run that first command line from Windows Command

Cygwin/X - Query: why invoking from cmd backgrounds?

2024-01-20 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I am just wondering if anyone understands why XWin detaches/runs in the background, when launched from Windows Command Prompt. This being different to when run from Mintty. Here's what happens with my Mintty invocation, which stays in the foreground: | $ XWin :1 -nolisten tcp -ac