Re: Problem of Starting Xterm using the System Tray Icon for Xterm for Cygwin64

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:44:29PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:25:44PM -0700, Mark Hansen wrote:
> > On 3/19/2014 3:21 PM, Jyhshyong wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I just installed Cygwin 64 on my 64-bit Cygein 64 PC, and found that 
> > > the Xterm in the system tray icon is no longer working.  
> > > 
> > > The Xwin server system tray icon has the following target
> > > 
> > > C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
> > > 
> > > It works fine as the 32-bit version, click on the icon, I can start X 
> > > server and open a small Xterm window.
> > > 
> > > However, the Xterm system tray icon with the target defined as
> > > 
> > > C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/xterm -sl 1000 -
> > > geometry 120x40  -fn -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*  
> > > -sb -rightbar -fg black -bg white -display 127.0.0.1:0.0'
> 
> I don't see anything wrong with the command-line, but it's been a while
> since I updated Cygwin packages (and I'm not in the middle of a release
> cycle), so I'll do that to see if it breaks for me.

hmm:

	a) I'm uncertain how to configure the system tray to match the
	   reported configuration (a sample .XWinrc might help).

	b) the latest xterm I find from mirrors is still #302 (should not
	   be a problem with the given command-line).

	c) xterm comes up on my machine (which is 64-bits).

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