Chuck - thanks for the reply. This is what I had concluded but it's nice to get some confirmation. For the next few days I can live with 'manually' starting urxvtc-X via individual batch files.
Thanks, Jay -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 10:54 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X 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). This change has caused a number of problems, and it is not yet clear how they will be resolved. Stay tuned to the main cygwin list -- and meanwhile, revert to cygwin-1.7.5. -- Chuck -- 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/ -- 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/