RE: TWM menus don't launch xterms

[Kirsty Hollingworth <keh112 at york dot ac dot uk>]

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 <keh112@york.ac.uk> 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: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> > > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Kirsty Hollingworth
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:23 AM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > > 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                               <keh112@york.ac.uk>
> > > > "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                               <keh112@york.ac.uk> 
> > "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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
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Kirsty Hollingworth                               <keh112@york.ac.uk> 
"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