RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms

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

I don't know what to tell you then.  As I said before, I am a terrible X
user.  I know almost nothing about using X on a day to day basis.  Perhaps
someone else on the list can offer some assistance.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:26 AM
> To: Harold L Hunt
> Cc: cygx
> Subject: RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
>
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Harold L Hunt wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>  There are full, correct case (I checked), pathnames in the system.twmrc.
>  I checked the startxwin.bat and autoexec.bat and made sure that all the
>  paths were typed in in the correct case.  Somewhere along the line
>  windows decides that they should be capitalised.  There are no user
>  .twmrc's.  Is it likely to be worth trying a different windowmanager?  I
>  prefer WindowMaker (not that it makes much difference for the use to
>  which I am putting my setup) and I noticed that someone's ported it to
>  cygwin/xfree.
>
> > 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:/cygdriv
> e/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/WIN
> DOWS/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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> 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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