On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 07/07/2015 04:13, Michael DePaulo wrote: >> >> First of all, let me say how much I like xwin-xdg-menu. Thumbs up to >> Jon Turney, and to all the other developers like Yaakov Selkowitz who >> work on related components/package for Cygwin/X. >> >> Anyway, when I do the following: >> >> $ xinit -- -multiwindow >> >> From the xterm that automatically launches: >> $ xwin-xdg-menu >> >> XDG Menu > View logfile >> >> I then see this: >> >> executing 'xterm -title '/dev/pty1' -e less +F /dev/pty1', pid 1292 >> (pid 1292 stderr) Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet >> conversion >> (pid 1292 stderr) Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset >> pid 1292 exited with status 0 >> >> (The xterm window flashes briefly, and then disappears.) >> >> Is /dev/pty1 the log file we should be trying to open? >> >> I am not even sure what log file should be opened. Personally, I would >> have assumed it is the X Server's log file. > > > That's hard to do with full generality, as we would need to know or discover > what -logfile option the server was given. > >> I see that this is the relevant code: >> >> https://github.com/jon-turney/xwin-xdg-menu/blob/51ae0ec7f225b8257ba64ce5318b857bf9ce8450/execute.c#L236 > > > I made a small update to today, which includes a change to remove the "View > logfile" menu item if stdout is a tty, which should avoid this problem > scenario. > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
Thanks. I tested it successfully. And Yaakov, thanks for explaining that. (In a split email thread, Yaakov explained that I should use the "XWin Server" shortcut, which uses startxwin). -Mike -- 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
