Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-08-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/07/2012 14:08, Paul Maier wrote: The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... thank you for your input. 8-) I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry. But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9

AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Maier
I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? Possible? Yes. [...] Running it from the Startup program group is the correct

Re: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2012 8:15 AM, Paul Maier wrote: Can you recommend me how to start the X Server without getting a task bar entry? The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... Eliot Moss -- Unsubscribe info:

AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Maier
The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... Hi Eliot, thank you for your input. 8-) I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry. But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9 to 1.7.15, run.exe only hides

Re: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2012 8:57 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/28/2012 8:15 AM, Paul Maier wrote: Can you recommend me how to start the X Server without getting a task bar entry? The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... ... and I just tried it in the

Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2012 9:08 AM, Paul Maier wrote: The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry. But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9 to 1.7.15, run.exe only hides the

Re: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/07/2012 23:30, Paul Maier wrote: I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? Possible? Yes. You can't run an arbitrary executable as

possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Maier
Hi, I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? I tried these attempts, but they don't work: sc create testabc1 binpath=

RE: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-26 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Paul Maier I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. How about just adding the XWin Server shortcut to the Startup program group? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple