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RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Kirsty Hollingworth" <keh112 at york dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:40:55 -0400
- Subject: RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
Kirsty,
What startup method are you using, e.g. startxin.bat, startxwin.sh, or some
other method?
statxwin.bat correctly sets the DOS path to executables... which is picked
up by bash, etc. When I run 'set' in an xterm running bash, I get:
PATH=.:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:
/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin
What do you get?
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:23 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: TWM menus don't launch xterms
>
>
> I only use my cygwin/xfree distribution as a display when using LaTeX on
> a linux box. XDCMP is not (and is not going to be) running on the linux
> box so I'm stuck with xhosts and setenv's.
>
> Anyway I can't get twm to respond to application launch commands in the
> menu. Nothing happens, and as far as I can tell nothing goes wrong
> either! TWM is registering clicks on the menu as it will kill/bring
> forward/send back etc windows but I cannot launch xterms or
> telnet-in-xterms from the menus. I have tried giving the
> config file absolute (relative to cygwin's /) pathnames, adding a
> "start.exe" before the xterm command and the commandlines I'm trying work
> fine from a bash shell running locally.
>
> I'm running Win95 w 256 RAM. Cygwin was last updated around Christmas
> time and I updated everything that it suggested that I update (but this
> didn't break it!) UK keyboard map (didn't work before I got the keyboard
> working). In fact it didn't work "out of the box".
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer (and sorry for vagarities, email and
> computer separated by approx 1.5 miles!)
>
>
> --
> Kirsty Hollingworth <keh112@york.ac.uk>
> "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
> but that men will begin to think like computers." Sydney J. Harris
>
>
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