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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: Tue, 28 May 2002 19:08:49 -0400
- Subject: RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
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
>
>
>