Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 23/04/2012 17:41, Eliot Moss wrote: Ok -- by perusing the log I figured it out ... [727848.279] executing 'xterm -display :0.0 -ls -title swarm -bg rgbi:.0/.20/.0 -geometry 120x47+0+0 -e /usr/bin/ssh m...@swarm.cs.umass.edu', pid 13748 [727848.311] (pid 13748 stderr) /bin/sh: xterm:

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 23/04/2012 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur while fork/exec-ing them. Would it be possible for you to also add some code for diagnosing problems

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Eliot Moss
Ok, I can see that perhaps in some ways I was being foolish and could have figured out more of this myself. But here's something interesting. I tried this: - Pin to Start Menu of the supplied XLaunch short cut - Edit to change the command to: /usr/bin/xlaunch.exe -run

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/24/2012 7:54 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/04/2012 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur while fork/exec-ing them. Would it be possible for you to also

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/04/2012 11:23, Eliot Moss wrote: When I start XWin using xlaunch, trying to the start programs from the .XWinrc popup menu (right-click on the X icon, left-click on the program's entry in the menu), programs do not start. I get only those programs started by my script that I told

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/23/2012 9:51 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 11/04/2012 11:23, Eliot Moss wrote: When I start XWin using xlaunch, trying to the start programs from the .XWinrc popup menu (right-click on the X icon, left-click on the program's entry in the menu), programs do not start. I get only those

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Eliot Moss
Ok -- by perusing the log I figured it out ... In the past, .XWinrc names of files such as xterm worked just fine. Apparently something changed about the PATH used, and xterm was not being found. When I write /usr/bin/xterm, it starts up. You can see the first case and the second in the attached

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/23/2012 12:41 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: Ok -- by perusing the log I figured it out ... In the past, .XWinrc names of files such as xterm worked just fine. Apparently something changed about the PATH used, and xterm was not being found. When I write /usr/bin/xterm, it starts up. You can see the