A couple of months ago, I re-installed Cygwin on my Win7 machine. Since then, when clicking the XWin Server entry in the Start Menu, it not only starts the (familiar) X tray icon along with a xterm
window (this is running in "rootless" mode), but also a frame-less, grey window with the same (slightly larger) X icon.
It is placed in the screen's top-left corner and on being clicked, it offers a small menu of applications to execute and to "Exit Cygwin/X". Its taskbar entry shows "panel" as its window title.
Since this "panel" window's functionality is duplicated in the tray icon's right-click menu (which has more options anyway), I am wondering how to suppress the start of this window.
I had a look at the man
pages for Xwin
and XWinrc
as well as the files under /etc/X11/xinit/
, but since I am new to X11 I might have missed something. The Manpage of XWin and the Configuring Cygwin/X pages weren't helpful either.
exit
the xterm window, the whole server seems to shut down, at least the X icon in the systray disappears. Which might still be better than having the warnings "4 clients connected" when I click Exit in the systray menu given by my original installation. – FriendFX Feb 18 '15 at 23:13