-multiwindow crashes XWin.exe, twm does not

[Harold L Hunt II]

Thomas,

Please try -multiwindow without -clipboard.  That may work.

Otherwise, please try the next test release that I make... it has some 
NULL pointer checks that may relate to your problem.

Harold

Thomas L Roche wrote:
> I'd like to report a problem, though I suspect licensing may impede
> debugging. (I'll try to get any information requested.) Locally I'm
> running cygwin 1.3.22-1 (with xfree* updated today) atop w2k sp3. I
> want to X into an RHL8 box (here "1.2.3.4") on which I want to run IBM's
> WebSphere Studio Site Developer Express (for testing). 1.2.3.4
> requires ssh and is inside a firewall.
> 
> WebSphere Studio products typically put up a configuration dialog,
> then display the full UI. When my startxwin.bat has
> 
> - start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -unixkill
> 
> I get my xterm, in which I run
> 
> # local
> xhost + 1.2.3.4
> ssh -X -l userid 1.2.3.4
> # remote
> cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere/Express/SiteDeveloper
> ./wasexpress51 &
> 
> This launches the dialog. When I hit OK (taking the harmless defaults),
> taskmgr shows some activity, until XWin.exe GPFs. But if I use
> 
> + start XWin -clipboard -unixkill
> 
> + REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
> 
> + run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg white -bg blue -e 
> /usr/bin/bash
> 
> + REM Startup the twm window manager.
> + REM WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with
> + REM the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so
> + REM would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen.
> 
> + run twm
> 
> in my startxwin.bat, and run the same xterm session above, both the
> dialog and the full IDE launch properly.