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 the start menu entry for xterm no longer
works. Entering the command from the shortcut directly into the cmd.exe
shell returns without an error or any output (that I can find). From
bash, the command works fine. The other shortcuts that I've tried
(e.g.. xcalc) all worked, so there is presumably something unusual about
the way that xterm starts that causes a silent exit when started from a
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' work for
different reasons. Furthermore, I believe that the script that creates
the shortcuts needs to be modified to be able to support shortcuts to
programs that live in /usr/bin. You'll notice that the emacs shortcut
also does not work for the same reason.
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 thoroughly tested (you know, tough stuff like
clicking at least one of the tree classes of shortcuts: /usr/bin X
programs, /usr/X11R6/bin X programs, and /usr/X11R6/bin terminal
programs) since the sort of changes required may break the other links
that the scripts create (this is part of the Catch-22 I was talking about).