Re: Need help starting an application when X starts

On 08/12/2025 14:49, Jim Reisert AD1C via Cygwin wrote:
> I'm having trouble locating the correct file to create/modify that
> will automatically start an X application when the Cygwin X server
> starts.
> 
> Here is how I start the X server:
> 
>      D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec
> /usr/bin/startxwin"
> 
> ~/.xserverrc contains this:
> 
>      exec /usr/bin/XWin -notrayicon -noclipboard "$@"
> 
> I've tried putting the command in ~/.xsession, but it doesn't start:
> 
>      /usr/bin/xwinclip >& /dev/null &
> 

If you use the "User .xsession script" shortcut, that ends up running 
your ~/.xsession.

Note that the server will exit once that script does! (so end it with 
'sleep infinity' if you don't want that to happen)

> I've tried copying the default .xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc and adding the
> command at the end, but that doesn't work either.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
'man startxwin' says that the applicable files in this case are
/etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc and ~/.startxwinrc.

Not sure if there's a good way to add customizations into that. But a 
~/.startxwinrc which does:

custom-command-i-want &
exec /usr/bin/xwin-xdg-menu

should get you most of the way there...


-- 
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple