RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms

[Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Kirsty,

I don't think that /USR/X11R6/BIN is going to work.  Try /usr/X11R6/bin.  I'm 
not positive, but I have a hunch that the path may be case sensitive... at 
least TWM's handling of the path may be case sensitive.

Harold

Kirsty Hollingworth <keh112@york.ac.uk> said:

> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Harold Hunt wrote:
> 
> > Kirsty,
> > 
> > What startup method are you using, e.g. startxin.bat, startxwin.sh, or 
some
> > other method?
> 
> A slightly modified startxwin.bat - it launches the local shell minimised
> and launches a telnet-in-xterm to the linux box.  It laos launches xclock
> and sets the root color to a nicer one (IMO)
>  > 
> > 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?
> 
> Very similar - I get 
> 
> 
PATH=.:/usr/bin:/USR/X11R6/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND
:/usr/bin:/USR/BIN:/USR/X11R6/BIN
> 
> Why do you have /usr/bin listed twice?  Surely it should pick things up on
> the first inclusion?
> 
> > 
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> 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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> 
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