From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5280 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2012 15:04:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 5264 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Apr 2012 15:04:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_TX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.143) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:04:21 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3NF4J3R001783 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:04:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [128.84.234.250] (dhcp250.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q3NF4JDt005882 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F956F70.4080900@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:04:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch References: <4F855BAC.7010809@cs.umass.edu> <4F955E58.8060403@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F955E58.8060403@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Mon Apr 23 11:04:19 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 On 4/23/2012 9:51 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 11/04/2012 11:23, Eliot Moss wrote: >> When I start XWin using xlaunch, trying to the start >> programs from the .XWinrc popup menu (right-click on >> the X icon, left-click on the program's entry in the >> menu), programs do not start. I get only those programs >> started by my script that I told xlaunch to run. >> >> I would like to use xlaunch, since it solves the issue >> I had with the startxwin taskbar icon being visible >> (when I claim it should not be, and it didn't use to >> be), but not being able to start additional programs >> makes this approach less useable. >> >> Looking at this from outside, it is hard to say whether >> the real issue is in xlaunch, in XWin, or the result of >> some misunderstanding between them. > > At the moment, the output from processes started from the notification area > icon doesn't go anywhere useful, which can make it hard to debug problems with > processes started this way. > > I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to > the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur > while fork/exec-ing them. Would it be possible for you to also add some code for diagnosing problems with processes started from .startxwinrc? I'm hoping it might help with the problem I reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00050.html BTW, I tried the snapshot at ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120423-git-638383315ef51e46.exe.bz2 and the resulting log has a lot of messages like this: winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Is that to be expected, or does it indicate a real problem? Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/