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-multiwindow crashes XWin.exe, twm does not
- From: Thomas L Roche <tlroche at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:53:47 -0400
- Subject: -multiwindow crashes XWin.exe, twm does not
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I'd like to report a problem, though I suspect licensing may impede
debugging. (I'll try to get any information requested.) Locally I'm
running cygwin 1.3.22-1 (with xfree* updated today) atop w2k sp3. I
want to X into an RHL8 box (here "1.2.3.4") on which I want to run IBM's
WebSphere Studio Site Developer Express (for testing). 1.2.3.4
requires ssh and is inside a firewall.
WebSphere Studio products typically put up a configuration dialog,
then display the full UI. When my startxwin.bat has
- start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -unixkill
I get my xterm, in which I run
# local
xhost + 1.2.3.4
ssh -X -l userid 1.2.3.4
# remote
cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere/Express/SiteDeveloper
./wasexpress51 &
This launches the dialog. When I hit OK (taking the harmless defaults),
taskmgr shows some activity, until XWin.exe GPFs. But if I use
+ start XWin -clipboard -unixkill
+ REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
+ run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg white -bg blue -e
/usr/bin/bash
+ REM Startup the twm window manager.
+ REM WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with
+ REM the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin. Doing so
+ REM would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen.
+ run twm
in my startxwin.bat, and run the same xterm session above, both the
dialog and the full IDE launch properly.