Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Well, then don't feel upset that I'm disregarding your 2c. > > "[...] breaks all sorts of existing scripts [...]" is pretty hard to > believe since it took the collective mailing list two weeks to even > notice the move. I had an "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" in my XWin.r

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Harold, > > > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > > >>Igor, > >> > >>Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote (irrelevant parts snipped): > >>> > Phil Betts wrote: > >>

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-02 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Harold, On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote (irrelevant parts snipped): Phil Betts wrote: Luke said: In my .xinitrc I *don't* have an explicit path for xterm. However, I see xter

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Harold, On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Igor, > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote (irrelevant parts snipped): > > > >>Phil Betts wrote: > >> > >>>Luke said: > >>> > >In my .xinitrc I *don't* have an explicit path for xterm. However, I > >

RE: Various starting X problems

2004-04-02 Thread Phil Betts
Hi Harold, >> vanilla DOS/Windows shell. My guess is that it's relying on some env >> var. > >I'm aware of this. I don't remember the exact details, but there is a >sort of Catch-22 situation for setting the "start in" folder for the >xterm shortcut; neither '/usr/bin' nor '/usr/X11R6/bin' wor

/usr/bin/xterm (was: Re: Various starting X problems)

2004-04-02 Thread luke . kendall
On 1 Apr, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > I don't have time to fix this. I would appreciate it if someone else > > would grab the -src package for X-start-menu-icons via setup.exe and > > work on fixing it; I don't want a half-assed untested patch either, I > > want one that has been thorough

Re: Fwd: Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-02 Thread luke . kendall
On 1 Apr, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Luke, > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>cat: /cygdrive/d/home/luke/.Xauthority: No such file or directory > >>>xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no program named > "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" in PATH > >> > >> > >> Something els

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread luke . kendall
On 1 Apr, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > How about the "macro replace in a postinstall script" approach I suggested > earlier? Also, postinstall scripts already run *in* Cygwin, so there > should be no reason to detect it, right? Just use "cygpath"... > > > > If you'd be interested in a un

Re: Fwd: Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:10:18AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm re-sending this since the mail server rejected the .zip attachment, >it seems: > > The Postfix program > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host sources.redhat.com[67.72.78.213] said: 552 we >don't accept email wit

Re: Fwd: Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Luke, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat: /cygdrive/d/home/luke/.Xauthority: No such file or directory xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" in PATH Something else must be wrong with your path. I don't think so. FWIW, here is my full and ugly

Fwd: Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread luke . kendall
DATA command) Instead, I'll just paste them inline. Apologies for the length. luke -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Various starting X problems Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:08:28 +1000 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 31

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote (irrelevant parts snipped): Phil Betts wrote: Luke said: In my .xinitrc I *don't* have an explicit path for xterm. However, I see xterm has moved from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin! Did many other Slightly OT: I noticed

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote (irrelevant parts snipped): > Phil Betts wrote: > > > Luke said: > > > >>>In my .xinitrc I *don't* have an explicit path for xterm. However, I > >>>see xterm has moved from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin! Did many other > > > > Slightly OT: I noticed that t

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Phil, Phil Betts wrote: Hi Harold, Firstly, it's generally bad form to quote verbatim email addresses - although Luke did so in his original posting, so he can't complain if a spam harvester latches onto him ;-). You know, I know that, but as you said, if they did it to themself first then I'm

RE: Various starting X problems

2004-04-01 Thread Phil Betts
Hi Harold, Firstly, it's generally bad form to quote verbatim email addresses - although Luke did so in his original posting, so he can't complain if a spam harvester latches onto him ;-). Now... Luke said: >> In my .xinitrc I *don't* have an explicit path for xterm. However, I >> see xterm has

Re: Various starting X problems

2004-03-31 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Luke, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now with the workaround of knowing to run startx -- :0 to get X to start, I thought I'd have a poke about to see what exactly makes it crash. I came up with several interesting problems. In my .xinitrc I *don't* have an explicit path for xterm. However, I see xterm