Re: 'run xterm' fails to open a window

[Florent Fievez <mailing at fievel dot be>]

Hello,

First thanks for taking time to answer me, it now works but I don't
understand very well why ...
However that's not a problem, it's just my mind which like to know ...

2009/11/5 Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>:
>>
>> Yes, it works without problem but a cmd window remain and that is
>> annoying.
>
> ---
> ? ? ? ?Maybe you can close the cmd window after it starts...
>
> ? ? ? ?Yeah, still a pain...

No it kills subprocesses, so if I close that window, rxvt will close.


> ? ? ? ?I'm not a windows.cmd language expert, but....
>
>> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>
> ---
> ? ? ? ?I don't know if it would make a difference, but I use
> DISPLAY=":0" ?(I only have 1 display, so the extra ".0" should
> be superfluous). ?But also ":0" should connect via a local socket
> instead of using IP. ?Do you have any firewall products that could
> be blocking traffic to or from 127.0.0.x?

For the firewall, it's completely disabled on my computer and I can
export display from other host to my computer without any problems.
With DISPLAY=:0 (in both bash and cmd script, *it works*), so thank
you but I'm not understanding the source of my problem.


>
>
>> if defined CYGWIN_ROOT goto :OK
>> set CYGWIN_ROOT=%~dp0
>
> ----
> ? ? ? ?Not sure what ~dp0 is supposed to do. ???
>

~dp0 return the path of current script, it's like you do a :
myDir=`dirname $0`
pushd $myDir
CYGWIN_ROOT=`pwd`
popd


Best regards,

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