Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 4/23/2012 9:51 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 11/04/2012 11:23, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> When I start XWin using xlaunch, trying to the start
>> programs from the .XWinrc popup menu (right-click on
>> the X icon, left-click on the program's entry in the
>> menu), programs do not start.  I get only those programs
>> started by my script that I told xlaunch to run.
>>
>> I would like to use xlaunch, since it solves the issue
>> I had with the startxwin taskbar icon being visible
>> (when I claim it should not be, and it didn't use to
>> be), but not being able to start additional programs
>> makes this approach less useable.
>>
>> Looking at this from outside, it is hard to say whether
>> the real issue is in xlaunch, in XWin, or the result of
>> some misunderstanding between them.
> 
> At the moment, the output from processes started from the notification area
> icon doesn't go anywhere useful, which can make it hard to debug problems with
> processes started this way.
> 
> I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to
> the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur
> while fork/exec-ing them.

Would it be possible for you to also add some code for diagnosing problems with processes started from .startxwinrc?  I'm hoping it might help with the problem I reported in

  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00050.html

BTW, I tried the snapshot at

  ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120423-git-638383315ef51e46.exe.bz2

and the resulting log has a lot of messages like this:

 winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
 winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

Is that to be expected, or does it indicate a real problem?

Ken

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