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Re: mintty window won't open


On 28/09/2010 13:18, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 28 September 2010 11:31, Ryan Johnson wrote:
On 9/28/2010 12:23 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
I switched from rxvt to mintty yesterday, and it worked great all day.
However, today when I try to open a new mintty window from within an
existing one, nothing happens. The process starts, but no window
appears. This happens when attempting to open both 0.8.3 and 0.9b2
windows from a 0.9b2 window. The broken window also does the same thing
to tkdiff but is able to run xterm without problems.

Oddly, using the shortcut from the start menu (0.8.3) still works, and
any windows I fire up from it (including 0.9b2) work fine after that and
can in turn fire up their own new instances.

I found the problem: the terminal was running an ssh session to localhost.

Ah yes, that would do it.

I think you can detect this situation (no access to the interactive desktop or whatever is it called), if you wished to issue a suitable error message, by checking that OpenInputDesktop() returns non-NULL...


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