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RE: 'run xterm' fails to open a window
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of jean-luc malet
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:50 AM
> no more result... gvim process is still started, appears in ps -a, but
> nothing is displayed on screen, replacing gvim by xterm still work
> with this solution...
To find out why this is, run gvim from an xterm:
[SNIP]
m-ayers-lap> gvim
(gvim:1748): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
(gvim:1748): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD
(gvim:1748): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
(gvim:1748): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD
m-ayers-lap>
(gvim:1092): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD
[/SNIP]
Apparently, run.exe is not providing stdout/stderr to dump to. The workaround:
[SNIP]
C:\mike>C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin sh -c "gvim >/dev/null 2>&1"
C:\mike>
[/SNIP]
HTH,
Mike