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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:07:54 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
> 
> > One work-around I've discovered is to start XEmacs from an rxvt
> > window instead of directly from bash.  That fixes the problem for
> > me.  I use the following shortcut for starting XEmacs:
> >
> >   start /min c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -T "start XEmacs" -e
> /bin/bash --login -i -c "DISPLAY= /usr/local/bin/xemacs &"
> >
> > This causes a minimized rxvt window to be created, but it quickly
> > goes away once XEmacs starts starting.
> >
> What I am doing now is
> 1) dos batch file
> 
> @echo off
> bash --login -e /home/antoine/runemacs.sh
> pause
> 
> 2) contents of runemacs.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit.exe
> 
> 3) I am starting xemacs out of my ~/.xinitrc
> 
> exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login -e
> "/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs"
> 
> Tedious, but I have created an icon for the first bat file on my quick start
> bar, and I can get my xemacs started.
> 
> Antoine

This seems like the hard way of doing things.  Slow and big, too. 
There's no particular reason to start X, since rxvt will work fine
without it and will accomplish the same thing as xterm does.

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