Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.11-1

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 8/14/2009 2:48 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 14 20:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 14 14:16, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > > Charles Wilson wrote:
> > > Corinna, can you give this a try? (I'm happy to send you a compiled
> > > version of the modified run.exe if that helps).
> > I just built it myself, and this looks pretty good.  I can start xterm
> > and urxvt-X wjust fine without a flickering cmd window.
> >
> > However, what does NOT work anymore is to start the X server.  I had
> > to start it manually for testing xterm/urxvt.
> >
> > Given that the X server shortcut is just a `run /usr/bin/startxwin.bat',
> > is it possible that the new incarnation doesn't start cmd correctly?
>
> I built with -DDEBUG and it appears that startxwin.bat runs fine,
> but the "run within run" inside of startxwin.bat
>
>   %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>
> fails silently.

I can confirm that the shortcut to start the X server doesn't work on my 
XP system with the patched run.  But my shortcut for starting emacs 
(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00379.html), which has a very 
similar run within run, works fine.

Ken

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