Here’s a thing.
Use Cygwin’s X11 apps from a Windows CMD window.
First, the XWin sever is running. I always install the XDG stuff, which means I have the XDG menu in my taskbar menu. If I hover over it, the hover info will show that it is running on display :0.
At the very end of my Windows PATH, I have the cygwin64 bin folder (and any other folders I want to use); I have a userspace installation, so in my case that is
C:\Users\username\installs\cygwin64\bin
But usually it is
C:\cygwin64\bin
Then I create an environment variable in my Windows environment.
DISPLAY=:0
I can check it is defined once I open the CMD window:
C:\Users\username>set | grep DIS DISPLAY=:0
Then I can open a Windows CMD.EXE window and run my Cygwin applications, even the graphical ones.
I guess this is obvious to some, but I found it a useful thing.
Now, of course CMD doe not understand & as backgrounding the process, so you do not have the CMD prompt while the program is running. If this is not OK, what do you do? Use the Windows START command:
start /b xcalc
will run xcalc in the background and give you back the prompt. Obviously, if you want to regularly run these X11 programs from CMD, you could make a batch file that issues the START command and put it somewhere that CMD will find it.
Anyway, I think that’s nifty.
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