Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:37:36PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote:
> 
> Okay, this is very strange. As I said before, I have had no problems launching XTerms
> on my desktop running 64-bit Cygwin. I've launched several XTerms today with no problems
> ... until a few minutes ago. I went to launch an XTerm on my desktop PC and it began
> having the same problem I saw on the laptop (the error having to do with XTERM_SHELL).
> 
> I edited the launcher shortcut to remove the "/bin/zsh -l" from the end of the command
> and it started working again.
> 
> I didn't do anything to update the Cygwin product on my desktop during this time.

xterm handles these three cases differently:

	xterm
	xterm /bin/zsh
	xterm -e /bin/zsh

The bug that I mentioned is in the second case - not in the other two.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
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