Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 20 10:54, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 8/20/2010 10:48 AM, Jay Goldman wrote:
> >I have the following menu items in my .XWinrc:
> >        Black EXEC  "/bin/urxvtc-X -fg green -bg black   -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -I"
> >        dodger EXEC  "urxvtc-X -fg white -bg dodgerblue   -cr blue -g 80x42 -e /bin/bash -l -I"
> >
> >Which have been working for months .
> >
> >Today I upgraded my cygwin install and all my menu items like the above no longer work.
> >(as noted above I've tried both simply urxvtc-X and /bin/urxvtc-X
> >If, however, I open up a command window using rxvt and then enter the above
> >Line (by copy and paste) it works fine.
> 
> My first guess was that the urxvt daemon (urxvtd-X) was not running,
> so the client failed. But if you can launch the client using some
> incantation, then that means the daemon is running.
> 
> >
> >Note, menu items like:
> >                 Xterm exec "xterm"
> >Work correctly,
> >While menu items such as:
> >                 Notepad exec "notepad"
> >Do not.
> 
> Ah. Here's the clue: launching a native win32 program fails.  I bet
> this is related to the change in cygwin-1.7.6 where the cygwin
> "current working directory" and the win32 CWD are no longer
> automatically kept in sync (there are good reasons for this new
> behavior).

Maybe that's related, but why?  Does urxvtc-X start applications using
CreateProcess?

I'm asking because if they are started via fork/exec, the cwd for the
child process gets set to the Cygwin cwd if the child is a native Win32
process, like Notepad.  Cygwin executables OTOH shouldn't be affected,
unless, again, they use native Win32 calls.

And that also doesn't answer the question why starting /bin/urxvtc-X in
the menu entries at the start of the mail are not working anymore, at
least unless /bin/urxvtc-X is not a Cygwin application.

> This change has caused a number of problems, and it is not yet clear
> how they will be resolved.

In the first place: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00554.html
and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00562.html


Corinna

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