X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_RX,TW_TK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CA1EFC6.6030202@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:38:14 +0100 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mintty window won't open References: <4CA1C204.6090405@epfl.ch> <4CA1C3EE.1030204@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple