On Aug 14 17:39, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/14/2009 2:48 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 14 20:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Aug 14 14:16, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>> Charles Wilson wrote: >>>> Corinna, can you give this a try? (I'm happy to send you a compiled >>>> version of the modified run.exe if that helps). >>> I just built it myself, and this looks pretty good. I can start xterm >>> and urxvt-X wjust fine without a flickering cmd window. >>> >>> However, what does NOT work anymore is to start the X server. I had >>> to start it manually for testing xterm/urxvt. >>> >>> Given that the X server shortcut is just a `run /usr/bin/startxwin.bat', >>> is it possible that the new incarnation doesn't start cmd correctly? >> >> I built with -DDEBUG and it appears that startxwin.bat runs fine, >> but the "run within run" inside of startxwin.bat >> >> %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error >> >> fails silently. > > I can confirm that the shortcut to start the X server doesn't work on my > XP system with the patched run. But my shortcut for starting emacs > (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00379.html), which has a very > similar run within run, works fine.
Apparently `run XWin' doesn't work at all anymore, everything else seems to work fine. A shortcut starting XWin directly w/o run works fine as well. Is XWin allergic against the pipe redirection, maybe? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
