From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21971 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2012 11:54:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 21957 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Apr 2012 11:54:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,TW_TX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mercury.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:54:15 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.1.105]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 24 Apr 2012 12:54:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4F96946A.4070406@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:54:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: kbrown@cornell.edu Subject: Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch References: <4F855BAC.7010809@cs.umass.edu> <4F955E58.8060403@dronecode.org.uk> <4F956F70.4080900@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F956F70.4080900@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00086.txt.bz2 On 23/04/2012 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: >> 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 Hmm.. not sure code is really needed. You can see the output from startxwin by running it from a terminal, or capture it by changing the shortcut which runs it to something like the following (perhaps we should do that by default) C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe >>/var/log/xwin/startxwin.log 2>&1' -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/