TWM menus don't launch xterms

[Kirsty Hollingworth]

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