title: cygwin: How to make a Windows Menu launcher for a remote application
body: <p>I have made a application launcher for Thunderbird (called mythunderbird) on a remote machine using the .XWinrc file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>menu apps {
          xterm   exec    "xterm"
          "Emacs" exec    "emacs"
          notepad exec    notepad
          xload   exec    "xload -display %display%"  # Comment
          mythunderbird exec "ssh -X mckserver.mckserver.apollo3.com thunderbird"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This starts beautifully with a multiple of keystrokes (right click XWin > (pint to Applicatoins) > click mythunderbird.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone tell me how I can add such a menu to a desktop short cut?  Putting a short cut to run "xterm" then logging in to the remote server and starting Thunderbird is easy, but a lot of steps and clicks.</p>
  
  <p>What I really need to do is know what to change in this default short cut for starting xterm:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I like about the functionality of the XWinrc application is that it has a clean execution of Thunderbird without the residue of an extra terminal left running.  If I start it outside XWinrc, I have Thunderbird running, but also an extra xterm running.</p>