Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

[Ken Brown]

On 11/25/2009 9:57 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> This is typical of the current issue we have where 'run xterm' blocks when
>> xterm tries to output 'Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion'
>>
>> Any one of:
>> - installing the CJK fonts
>> - having 'tty' in the CYGWIN environment variable
>> - having the LANG environment set to a non-UTF-8 locale
>> should work around this problem
>>
>> Note that the environment variable will have to be set via the system
>> applet in the Windows control panel, as only that controls the environment
>> for the startxwin.bat started from the start menu...
> 
> There's another option. In startxwin.bat, you could use run2.exe instead
> of run.  Instead of:
> 
> %RUN% bash -l -c "XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error"
> 
> Use
> 
> %RUNTWO% /usr/bin/XWin.xml
> 
> where XWin.xml is something like the following (untested):
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
> <Run2Config
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>   xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="run2.xsd">
>   <SelfOptions />
>   <Global>
>     <Environment>
>       <!-- either of these, or both, and modified as desired -->
>       <Set var="LANG"  value="C.ASCII"/>
>       <Append var="CYGWIN"  value=" tty"/>
>     </Environment>
>     <Target filename="/usr/bin/bash.exe" startin="~">
>       <Arg>-l</Arg>
>       <Arg>-c</Arg>
>       <Arg>"XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error"</Arg>
>     </Target>
>   </Global>
> </Run2Config>

You can also just use the DOS "set" command right in startxwin.bat.  In 
the case of CYGWIN, the syntax would be

   SET CYGWIN=%CYGWIN% tty

Ken

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