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Re: X11R7.4: XWinrc does not work anymore
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:32:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: X11R7.4: XWinrc does not work anymore
- References: <491AA4E2.3020001@alcatel-lucent.it>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Danilo Turina wrote:
> Hello,
> yesterday I installed the fresh new X11R7.4, this morning I also
> updated various packages and now the menu on the X tray icon does not
> work anymore: the menu items (also within submenus) are all there, but
> clicking them does nothing (apart a brief flickering of the hourglass
> mouse pointer).
> writesomething exec "/bin/echo something > /xxx.txt"
>
> or
>
> without any luck (the file /xxx.txt is not created)
>
Very strange. Taken together this suggests that the shell that the X server
runs is failing to run the command specified.
You might try strace-ing the X server to see if this gives more information
about why it's failing
> I updated to X11R7.4 in two different PCs (with different
> configurations/cygwin packages installed/XWinrc/X configuration) and I
> have this problem in both.
>
> I just wanted to know if this happens also to anybody else.
I'm afraid it works for me
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