Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

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.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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