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From: Jay Goldman <JayGoldman@crd.com> To: "cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> Subject: RE: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:07:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <8483108B583CFC4FAEFEE85B95CF015C2EECAB2FBC@MAIL4.crd.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20100820175631.GA12466@calimero.vinschen.de> [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8", Size: 3102 bytes --] Another data point, when I try: black EXEC "/bin/rxvt -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -i " rxvt successfully starts up but displays: /bin/find: failed to restore initial working directory: No such file or directory Before .bash_profile is invoked -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:57 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X On Aug 20 10:54, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/20/2010 10:48 AM, Jay Goldman wrote: > >I have the following menu items in my .XWinrc: > > Black EXEC "/bin/urxvtc-X -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -I" > > dodger EXEC "urxvtc-X -fg white -bg dodgerblue -cr blue -g 80x42 -e /bin/bash -l -I" > > > >Which have been working for months . > > > >Today I upgraded my cygwin install and all my menu items like the above no longer work. > >(as noted above I've tried both simply urxvtc-X and /bin/urxvtc-X > >If, however, I open up a command window using rxvt and then enter the above > >Line (by copy and paste) it works fine. > > My first guess was that the urxvt daemon (urxvtd-X) was not running, > so the client failed. But if you can launch the client using some > incantation, then that means the daemon is running. > > > > >Note, menu items like: > > Xterm exec "xterm" > >Work correctly, > >While menu items such as: > > Notepad exec "notepad" > >Do not. > > Ah. Here's the clue: launching a native win32 program fails. I bet > this is related to the change in cygwin-1.7.6 where the cygwin > "current working directory" and the win32 CWD are no longer > automatically kept in sync (there are good reasons for this new > behavior). Maybe that's related, but why? Does urxvtc-X start applications using CreateProcess? I'm asking because if they are started via fork/exec, the cwd for the child process gets set to the Cygwin cwd if the child is a native Win32 process, like Notepad. Cygwin executables OTOH shouldn't be affected, unless, again, they use native Win32 calls. And that also doesn't answer the question why starting /bin/urxvtc-X in the menu entries at the start of the mail are not working anymore, at least unless /bin/urxvtc-X is not a Cygwin application. > This change has caused a number of problems, and it is not yet clear > how they will be resolved. In the first place: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00554.html and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00562.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/ \x16º&s(0|_ç«zÛ«o|Ó©b²Ö«r\x172\b§ÅúÞ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 18:14 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2010-08-20 14:54 Jay Goldman 2010-08-20 15:05 ` Charles Wilson 2010-08-20 17:56 ` Jay Goldman 2010-08-20 18:14 ` Corinna Vinschen 2010-08-20 19:07 ` Jay Goldman [this message] [not found] ` <20100820190626.GH11340@calimero.vinschen.de> 2010-08-23 16:03 ` Jay Goldman [not found] <AANLkTindvuHq21A1sy3a=Ex14970xhFwHXoe_4rLXMui@mail.gmail.com> 2010-08-26 13:57 ` Jay Goldman
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