Re: Isuse with xwin-xdg-menu "View logfile"

[Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 04:13, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>>
>> First of all, let me say how much I like xwin-xdg-menu. Thumbs up to
>> Jon Turney, and to all the other developers like Yaakov Selkowitz who
>> work on related components/package for Cygwin/X.
>>
>> Anyway, when I do the following:
>>
>> $ xinit -- -multiwindow
>>
>>  From the xterm that automatically launches:
>> $ xwin-xdg-menu
>>
>> XDG Menu > View logfile
>>
>> I then see this:
>>
>> executing 'xterm -title '/dev/pty1' -e less +F /dev/pty1', pid 1292
>> (pid 1292 stderr) Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet
>> conversion
>> (pid 1292 stderr) Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
>> pid 1292 exited with status 0
>>
>> (The xterm window flashes briefly, and then disappears.)
>>
>> Is /dev/pty1 the log file we should be trying to open?
>>
>> I am not even sure what log file should be opened. Personally, I would
>> have assumed it is the X Server's log file.
>
>
> That's hard to do with full generality, as we would need to know or discover
> what -logfile option the server was given.
>
>> I see that this is the relevant code:
>>
>> https://github.com/jon-turney/xwin-xdg-menu/blob/51ae0ec7f225b8257ba64ce5318b857bf9ce8450/execute.c#L236
>
>
>  I made a small update to today, which includes a change to remove the "View
> logfile" menu item if stdout is a tty, which should avoid this problem
> scenario.
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

Thanks. I tested it successfully.

And Yaakov, thanks for explaining that.
(In a split email thread, Yaakov explained that I should use the "XWin
Server" shortcut, which uses startxwin).

-Mike

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