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RE: 'run xterm' fails to open a window
- From: Gery Herbozo Jimenez <gamejihou at hotmail dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:35:45 +0000
- Subject: RE: 'run xterm' fails to open a window
- References: <4AF03DCB.9070307@cornell.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Have you tried just starting the XWin server first and the the xterm? it looks like the X server doesn't recognize that line command.
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:27:23 -0500
> From: kbrown@cornell.edu
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: 'run xterm' fails to open a window
>
> I don't know if this is a problem with run, or xterm, or something else.
> If I start the X server and then type 'run xterm' in an xterm window,
> the xterm process starts but does not open a window. Here's what 'ps'
> shows before and after 'run xterm':
>
> $ ps
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 780 1 780 780 ? 1006 08:50:17 /usr/bin/mintty
> I 2932 780 2932 1480 0 1006 08:50:17 /usr/bin/bash
> 384 1 1708 2740 0 1006 08:50:32 /usr/bin/XWin
> 2648 384 2648 3064 ? 1006 08:51:07 /usr/bin/xterm
> 528 2648 528 3016 1 1006 08:51:11 /usr/bin/bash
> 3144 528 3144 1464 1 1006 09:05:28 /usr/bin/ps
>
> $ run xterm
>
> $ ps
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 780 1 780 780 ? 1006 08:50:17 /usr/bin/mintty
> I 2932 780 2932 1480 0 1006 08:50:17 /usr/bin/bash
> 384 1 1708 2740 0 1006 08:50:32 /usr/bin/XWin
> 2648 384 2648 3064 ? 1006 08:51:07 /usr/bin/xterm
> 528 2648 528 3016 1 1006 08:51:11 /usr/bin/bash
> 3452 1 3452 3452 con 1006 09:05:57 /usr/bin/xterm
> 4088 528 4088 3664 1 1006 09:06:01 /usr/bin/ps
>
> Obviously I have no good reason to want to start an xterm via 'run
> xterm' in an xterm window, but this issue is causing problems in a
> script I'm writing. [Briefly, I have a desktop shortcut with target
> '\path\to\run.exe bash -c foo.sh'. The script foo.sh calls xterm, which
> starts with no visible window, exactly as above.]
>
> I've attached cygcheck output and the XWin log.
>
> Ken
>
>
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