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Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation
- From: Mark Hansen <meh at Winfirst dot Com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:43:50 -0800
- Subject: Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation
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On 3/7/2014 4:36 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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.
Thanks. That was the bug I hit on my laptop. However, my desktop PC was working
fine with "xterm ... /bin/zsh -l" and then suddenly, it started getting the same
error. I made the same change to it as I did on my laptop PC and it worked, so
I'm not stopped - I'm just wondering how my desktop PC was working then suddenly
stopped working without altering any of the Cygwin software or settings.
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