This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
Re: xterm opens two windows
On 18 December 2010 01:33, Marshall, Lee wrote:
> One has a windows icon and the text "Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion"
> The other has the X icon with a menu bar and "sh-3.2$".
>
> My biggest objection to this is just the clutter of having a second, useless window open displaying this warning. Searching the internet, I found http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10948 and installed the additional fonts: font-isas-misc, font-jis-misc and font-daewoo-misc without eliminating the warning.
The second window is a Windows console. Windows creates that
automatically because xterm is (arguably wrongly) marked as a console
application. Avoid it by invoking xterm through the 'run' or 'run2'
tools. See their man pages for further details.
Andy
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/