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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F95873A.4030006@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F95864B.1090802@cs.umass.edu>

On 4/23/2012 12:41 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Ok -- by perusing the log I figured it out ...
>
> In the past, .XWinrc names of files such as "xterm"
> worked just fine. Apparently something changed about
> the PATH used, and "xterm" was not being found. When
> I write /usr/bin/xterm, it starts up. You can see the
> first case and the second in the attached log file.
>
> So, I think xlaunch is ok, but this was a surprising
> difference :-) ...
>
> Regards -- Eliot Moss

PS -- I can confirm that adding /usr/bin solves the
problem with the current released XWin.exe as well as
with the 20120423 snapshot you asked me to test.  E

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-23 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11 10:24 Eliot Moss
2012-04-23 13:51 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-23 15:04   ` Ken Brown
2012-04-24 11:54     ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-24 13:27       ` Ken Brown
2012-04-23 16:42   ` Eliot Moss
2012-04-23 16:46     ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2012-04-24 11:40     ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-24 12:23       ` Eliot Moss

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