Hi, Brian Dessent wrote: > Maxime Beaudry wrote: > > >>I installed xemacs along with cygwin. I try to start xemacs by directly by >>double clicking on the xemacs-21.4.17.exe file in my windows explorer. This >>starts a dos console window which in turns starts xemacs properly. >> >>My question is: is there a way to simply open a xemacs window and not the >>dos console window when double clicking on the executable? Thanks. > > > Try the 'run' utility in the X-startup-scripts package. The comment at > the top of the source pretty much explains it:
Actually, there is a definite change in the behaviour of the recently released build of xemacs-21.4.17 and its' predecessor xemacs-21.4.15. First, I think it is safe to say that the behaviour described by Maxime Beaudry relates to the non-X-windows instance of Xemacs. I know, because I explicitly unset DISPLAY when I run Xemacs through cygwin, to run without the X toolkit, and I am seeing this dos console window. As Maxime runs Xemacs from windows explorer, and unless Maxime is setting a global DISPLAY environment variable, it is safe to assume this is also the mode Maxime is using. In the latest build, a dos console window appears when run, either through windows explorer, or by typing: env DISPLAY= xemacs in an *rxvt session*. It does not happen if you run directly from a command prompt window (either direct, or the Cygwin/bash layered window), likely adopting this native console as it's own. I am guessing that there was a specific patch applied on 21.4.15 that was missed on 21.4.17 to avert this behaviour. Hope it gets back in, else I take drastic action of looking into it and rebuilding from source :-D Regards, Shaddy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
