Re: 'run xterm' fails to open a window

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 10/11/2009 23:44, Mike Ayers wrote:
> > 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]

Wait, are you saying that the process that run starts is blocked if it tries 
to output anything?

Also, the suggestions that this has something to do with DISPLAY not being set 
correctly seem a little unlikely.  If gvim or any other X application isn't 
able to determine which display to use, it should exit with an error, not hang 
around....


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