X11R7.4: XWinrc does not work anymore

[Jon TURNEY]

Danilo Turina wrote:
> Hello,
>     yesterday I installed the fresh new X11R7.4, this morning I also
> updated various packages and now the menu on the X tray icon does not
> work anymore: the menu items (also within submenus) are all there, but
> clicking them does nothing (apart a brief flickering of the hourglass
> mouse pointer).

>     writesomething    exec    "/bin/echo something > /xxx.txt"
> 
>         or
> 
>     without any luck (the file /xxx.txt is not created)
> 

Very strange.  Taken together this suggests that the shell that the X server
runs is failing to run the command specified.

You might try strace-ing the X server to see if this gives more information
about why it's failing

> I updated to X11R7.4 in two different PCs (with different
> configurations/cygwin packages installed/XWinrc/X configuration) and I
> have this problem in both.
> 
> I just wanted to know if this happens also to anybody else.

I'm afraid it works for me


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