Re: Need help starting an application when X starts
Jim Reisert AD1C via Cygwin <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM Jon Turney wrote: > '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... Thanks, Jon. That got me most of the way there. I had to add a call to xrdb. I hope this was the right place (it seems to be): # cat .startxwinrc xwinclip >& /dev/null & xrdb ~/.Xresources exec /usr/bin/xwin-xdg-menu -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <[email protected]>, https://ad1c.us -- 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