Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/12/28/02:13:27
Hello,
I wonder if anyone possibly has any idea in what direction should I look
to resolve my problem?
What can possibly prevent RXVT window from showing up? Please...
The problem occurs on 32 as well as 64 bits Windows 7 and JREs.
Best regards,
Alex
On 12/01/2010 11:58 PM, Alexandre Bezroutchko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Java application need to invoke rxvt. On Windows XP rxvt window
> appears and works fine. On Windows 7 the window does not appear, while
> I can see rxvt.exe in the list of running processes. Launching
> rxvt.exe from Start/Run, from Explorer, and from cmd.exe shell all
> work fine too, so the problem appears only if rxvt.exe is called from
> Java application...
>
> Below is a very short example which can be used to reproduce the problem:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> import java.io.IOException;
> public class Main {
> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
> InterruptedException {
> Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
> System.err.println("executing");
> Process process = runtime.exec("c:\\cygwin\\bin\\rxvt.exe");
> System.err.println("exec done, waiting ...");
> process.waitFor();
> System.err.println("wait done");
> }
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> 1) save as Main.java
> 2) compile it:
> javac Main.java
> 3) run it:
> java Main
>
>
> The problem appears in Windows 7 64 bit, latest Cygwin and Sun JRE:
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 w7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
>
> Z:\home-tmp\JavaApplication4\dist>"c:\Program Files
> (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe
> " -version
> java version "1.6.0_22"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
>
>
> Any idea why this can possibly happen? fixes/workarounds? Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexandre Bezroutchko
> www.gremwell.com
>
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