RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
I'm afraid not. I tried that, I put an error in twmrc, called the menu item, nothing seemed to happen, no output in XWin.log. I wonder where it went. Gerard -Original Message- From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vrijdag 31 mei 2002 16:47 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms --- Pille Geert (bkarnd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to start twm and capture its output? twm /tmp/twm.out 2/tmp/twm.err You can also check XWin.log in /tmp. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com === This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. You are explicitly requested to notify the sender of this email that the intended recipient was not reached.
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Pille Geert (bkarnd) wrote: I'm afraid not. I tried that, I put an error in twmrc, called the menu item, nothing seemed to happen, no output in XWin.log. I wonder where it went. XWin.log only contains the log messages from the x-server. Try starting twm from a bash. You should see all messages from twm and the started programs. Or is twm compiled as gui without console? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
--- Pille Geert (bkarnd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to start twm and capture its output? twm /tmp/twm.out 2/tmp/twm.err You can also check XWin.log in /tmp. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
I was just wondering if this problem is not the same as the earlier reported 'XWin gets the NumLock status wrong'. Kirsty, try to press NumLock once and see if it makes a difference. When the X Server gets out of sync with the status of NumLock funny things happen, especially things like the TWM popup menus do not work properly. Hope this helps. Ton van Overbeek
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Harold L Hunt wrote: Kirsty, I don't think that /USR/X11R6/BIN is going to work. Try /usr/X11R6/bin. I'm not positive, but I have a hunch that the path may be case sensitive... at least TWM's handling of the path may be case sensitive. There are full, correct case (I checked), pathnames in the system.twmrc. I checked the startxwin.bat and autoexec.bat and made sure that all the paths were typed in in the correct case. Somewhere along the line windows decides that they should be capitalised. There are no user .twmrc's. Is it likely to be worth trying a different windowmanager? I prefer WindowMaker (not that it makes much difference for the use to which I am putting my setup) and I noticed that someone's ported it to cygwin/xfree. Harold Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 23 May 2002, Harold Hunt wrote: Kirsty, What startup method are you using, e.g. startxin.bat, startxwin.sh, or some other method? A slightly modified startxwin.bat - it launches the local shell minimised and launches a telnet-in-xterm to the linux box. It laos launches xclock and sets the root color to a nicer one (IMO) statxwin.bat correctly sets the DOS path to executables... which is picked up by bash, etc. When I run 'set' in an xterm running bash, I get: PATH=.:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT: /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin What do you get? Very similar - I get PATH=.:/usr/bin:/USR/X11R6/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND :/usr/bin:/USR/BIN:/USR/X11R6/BIN Why do you have /usr/bin listed twice? Surely it should pick things up on the first inclusion? Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TWM menus don't launch xterms I only use my cygwin/xfree distribution as a display when using LaTeX on a linux box. XDCMP is not (and is not going to be) running on the linux box so I'm stuck with xhosts and setenv's. Anyway I can't get twm to respond to application launch commands in the menu. Nothing happens, and as far as I can tell nothing goes wrong either! TWM is registering clicks on the menu as it will kill/bring forward/send back etc windows but I cannot launch xterms or telnet-in-xterms from the menus. I have tried giving the config file absolute (relative to cygwin's /) pathnames, adding a start.exe before the xterm command and the commandlines I'm trying work fine from a bash shell running locally. I'm running Win95 w 256 RAM. Cygwin was last updated around Christmas time and I updated everything that it suggested that I update (but this didn't break it!) UK keyboard map (didn't work before I got the keyboard working). In fact it didn't work out of the box. Thanks for any help you can offer (and sorry for vagarities, email and computer separated by approx 1.5 miles!) -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
I don't know what to tell you then. As I said before, I am a terrible X user. I know almost nothing about using X on a day to day basis. Perhaps someone else on the list can offer some assistance. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:26 AM To: Harold L Hunt Cc: cygx Subject: RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms On Fri, 24 May 2002, Harold L Hunt wrote: Kirsty, I don't think that /USR/X11R6/BIN is going to work. Try /usr/X11R6/bin. I'm not positive, but I have a hunch that the path may be case sensitive... at least TWM's handling of the path may be case sensitive. There are full, correct case (I checked), pathnames in the system.twmrc. I checked the startxwin.bat and autoexec.bat and made sure that all the paths were typed in in the correct case. Somewhere along the line windows decides that they should be capitalised. There are no user .twmrc's. Is it likely to be worth trying a different windowmanager? I prefer WindowMaker (not that it makes much difference for the use to which I am putting my setup) and I noticed that someone's ported it to cygwin/xfree. Harold Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 23 May 2002, Harold Hunt wrote: Kirsty, What startup method are you using, e.g. startxin.bat, startxwin.sh, or some other method? A slightly modified startxwin.bat - it launches the local shell minimised and launches a telnet-in-xterm to the linux box. It laos launches xclock and sets the root color to a nicer one (IMO) statxwin.bat correctly sets the DOS path to executables... which is picked up by bash, etc. When I run 'set' in an xterm running bash, I get: PATH=.:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdriv e/c/WINNT: /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin What do you get? Very similar - I get PATH=.:/usr/bin:/USR/X11R6/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WIN DOWS/COMMAND :/usr/bin:/USR/BIN:/USR/X11R6/BIN Why do you have /usr/bin listed twice? Surely it should pick things up on the first inclusion? Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TWM menus don't launch xterms I only use my cygwin/xfree distribution as a display when using LaTeX on a linux box. XDCMP is not (and is not going to be) running on the linux box so I'm stuck with xhosts and setenv's. Anyway I can't get twm to respond to application launch commands in the menu. Nothing happens, and as far as I can tell nothing goes wrong either! TWM is registering clicks on the menu as it will kill/bring forward/send back etc windows but I cannot launch xterms or telnet-in-xterms from the menus. I have tried giving the config file absolute (relative to cygwin's /) pathnames, adding a start.exe before the xterm command and the commandlines I'm trying work fine from a bash shell running locally. I'm running Win95 w 256 RAM. Cygwin was last updated around Christmas time and I updated everything that it suggested that I update (but this didn't break it!) UK keyboard map (didn't work before I got the keyboard working). In fact it didn't work out of the box. Thanks for any help you can offer (and sorry for vagarities, email and computer separated by approx 1.5 miles!) -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Harold Hunt wrote: Kirsty, What startup method are you using, e.g. startxin.bat, startxwin.sh, or some other method? A slightly modified startxwin.bat - it launches the local shell minimised and launches a telnet-in-xterm to the linux box. It laos launches xclock and sets the root color to a nicer one (IMO) statxwin.bat correctly sets the DOS path to executables... which is picked up by bash, etc. When I run 'set' in an xterm running bash, I get: PATH=.:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT: /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin What do you get? Very similar - I get PATH=.:/usr/bin:/USR/X11R6/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND:/usr/bin:/USR/BIN:/USR/X11R6/BIN Why do you have /usr/bin listed twice? Surely it should pick things up on the first inclusion? Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TWM menus don't launch xterms I only use my cygwin/xfree distribution as a display when using LaTeX on a linux box. XDCMP is not (and is not going to be) running on the linux box so I'm stuck with xhosts and setenv's. Anyway I can't get twm to respond to application launch commands in the menu. Nothing happens, and as far as I can tell nothing goes wrong either! TWM is registering clicks on the menu as it will kill/bring forward/send back etc windows but I cannot launch xterms or telnet-in-xterms from the menus. I have tried giving the config file absolute (relative to cygwin's /) pathnames, adding a start.exe before the xterm command and the commandlines I'm trying work fine from a bash shell running locally. I'm running Win95 w 256 RAM. Cygwin was last updated around Christmas time and I updated everything that it suggested that I update (but this didn't break it!) UK keyboard map (didn't work before I got the keyboard working). In fact it didn't work out of the box. Thanks for any help you can offer (and sorry for vagarities, email and computer separated by approx 1.5 miles!) -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris
RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms
Kirsty, I don't think that /USR/X11R6/BIN is going to work. Try /usr/X11R6/bin. I'm not positive, but I have a hunch that the path may be case sensitive... at least TWM's handling of the path may be case sensitive. Harold Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 23 May 2002, Harold Hunt wrote: Kirsty, What startup method are you using, e.g. startxin.bat, startxwin.sh, or some other method? A slightly modified startxwin.bat - it launches the local shell minimised and launches a telnet-in-xterm to the linux box. It laos launches xclock and sets the root color to a nicer one (IMO) statxwin.bat correctly sets the DOS path to executables... which is picked up by bash, etc. When I run 'set' in an xterm running bash, I get: PATH=.:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT: /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin What do you get? Very similar - I get PATH=.:/usr/bin:/USR/X11R6/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND :/usr/bin:/USR/BIN:/USR/X11R6/BIN Why do you have /usr/bin listed twice? Surely it should pick things up on the first inclusion? Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TWM menus don't launch xterms I only use my cygwin/xfree distribution as a display when using LaTeX on a linux box. XDCMP is not (and is not going to be) running on the linux box so I'm stuck with xhosts and setenv's. Anyway I can't get twm to respond to application launch commands in the menu. Nothing happens, and as far as I can tell nothing goes wrong either! TWM is registering clicks on the menu as it will kill/bring forward/send back etc windows but I cannot launch xterms or telnet-in-xterms from the menus. I have tried giving the config file absolute (relative to cygwin's /) pathnames, adding a start.exe before the xterm command and the commandlines I'm trying work fine from a bash shell running locally. I'm running Win95 w 256 RAM. Cygwin was last updated around Christmas time and I updated everything that it suggested that I update (but this didn't break it!) UK keyboard map (didn't work before I got the keyboard working). In fact it didn't work out of the box. Thanks for any help you can offer (and sorry for vagarities, email and computer separated by approx 1.5 miles!) -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris -- Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris
