Isuse with xwin-xdg-menu "View logfile"

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Jul 8 14:43:00 GMT 2015


On 07/07/2015 04:13, Michael DePaulo wrote:
> First of all, let me say how much I like xwin-xdg-menu. Thumbs up to
> Jon Turney, and to all the other developers like Yaakov Selkowitz who
> work on related components/package for Cygwin/X.
>
> Anyway, when I do the following:
>
> $ xinit -- -multiwindow
>
>  From the xterm that automatically launches:
> $ xwin-xdg-menu
>
> XDG Menu > View logfile
>
> I then see this:
>
> executing 'xterm -title '/dev/pty1' -e less +F /dev/pty1', pid 1292
> (pid 1292 stderr) Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> (pid 1292 stderr) Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> pid 1292 exited with status 0
>
> (The xterm window flashes briefly, and then disappears.)
>
> Is /dev/pty1 the log file we should be trying to open?
>
> I am not even sure what log file should be opened. Personally, I would
> have assumed it is the X Server's log file.

That's hard to do with full generality, as we would need to know or 
discover what -logfile option the server was given.

> I see that this is the relevant code:
> https://github.com/jon-turney/xwin-xdg-menu/blob/51ae0ec7f225b8257ba64ce5318b857bf9ce8450/execute.c#L236

  I made a small update to today, which includes a change to remove the 
"View logfile" menu item if stdout is a tty, which should avoid this 
problem scenario.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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