X11R7.4: XWinrc does not work anymore

[jose isaias cabrera]

No, but I have not upgraded, nor I will anytime soon. :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danilo Turina" <danilo.turina@alcatel-lucent.it>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:41 AM
Subject: X11R7.4: XWinrc does not work anymore


> 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).
> 
> I have a personalized .XWinrc in my home directory, so I tried to remove 
> it and use the system's default one: no way.
> 
> Only the "default" items work:
>   1) "Reload .XWinrc"
>   2) "Hide Root Window"
>   3) "About..."
>   4) "Exit..."
> 
> All the other items do not work, even the simpler ones:
> 
> xterm exec "xterm"
> notepad exec notepad
> 
> (so neither cygwin application, nor plain windows application, do work).
> So it seems that the "exec" items do not work.
> 
> I tried to gather some info about this problem:
>   - by looking into XWin.log: but found nothing;
>   - by adding items like this one:
> 
> writesomething exec "/bin/echo something > /xxx.txt"
> 
> or
> 
>     without any luck (the file /xxx.txt is not created)
> 
> 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.
> 
> Ciao,
> Danilo
> 
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