> From: Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> >To: Doug Henderson <djndn...@gmail.com>; cygwin@cygwin.com >Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:28 PM >Subject: Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on >Win7Pro-64 > >>> Andrey, the flashing console flashes very quickly and I don't know how to >>> slow it down. >>> It appears to have no title and no contents. > >Normally, I just fire up a screen recorder in such cases. But I seems to have >missed the beginning of a discussion. > >> run appears to work correctly when you use it at a cygwin shell prompt. > >> run.exe is a cygwin executable; use ldd see the DLLs that it uses. > >> Since your shortcut is not starting a windows GUI program, it starts a >> console window, possibly executing cmd.exe > >Depends on the way shortcut is constructed... I don't think it ever touch >cmd.exe, there's no need to do so. But the console window is really the >run.exe itself. Most, if not all, of Cygwin applications are in fact "console >applications" in Windows terms. > >> Have you tried changing the shortcut to cause it to open the window >> minimized? I vaguely remember doing something like that with the >> cygwin.bat clone I used to start a (non-X windows) rxvt window. > >That may at least alleviate the window flashing in the face of a user.
Maybe I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of run.exe to start a cygwin program without creating a (visible) console window? I can just start a cygwin program directly without the indirection of run.exe if I don't care about the random flashing console window. >From the run.exe manpage: run will do this for you. It works as intermediate and starts a program but makes the console window hidden. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
