Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 01/01/2010 16:04, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> Yes, my startup folder shortcut is:
>
> D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>
> As I've said before, this works properly on my XP SP3 system at work,
> but not on my Windows 7 64-bit system at home.

I run Win7 64bit as well and the shortcut WJFFM.

One thing I just realized tonight is that if you use keychain(1) and 
added the command to your ~/.bash_profile (as suggested in that 
manpage), AND you use the shortcut to launch XWin without having started 
a console session first, then the login shell in which we want to launch 
startxwin will wait indefinitely for your SSH password (which you won't 
see because we use run.exe).  Trying the shortcut again while this 
occurs should work after a ~30-sec delay.

The fix for that is to test the presence of an interactive shell before 
running keychain (see bash.info, section 6.3.2):

case "$-" in
*i*) eval `keychain --eval ~/.ssh/id_dsa` ;;
esac

Since you mention it's your home computer that's having issues, I can 
only guess this might be it.  If you're not using keychain, then we'll 
need to see your 'cygcheck -srv' output and your /var/log/XWin.0.log (as 
plain-text attachments).


Yaakov
Cygwin/X

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