Re: FVWM: Rox filer in a fvwm

From: Marco Righele <marco_righele_at_yahoo.it>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 02:11:00 +0200

Alle Saturday 12 April 2003 16:17, Dan Espen ha scritto:
> Ploum <ploum_at_mitose.net> writes:
> > > See this thread:
> > >
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu/msg03150.html
> > >
> > > Try:
> > >
> > > Exec nohup rox
> >
> > I try it.
> >
> > It's better because it works if another rox window is open.
> > If not, nothing happens ! What's the deal with this software ?
>
> I haven't looked at the source code, but I believe its
> trying to figure out if its invoked from a tty.
>
> Maybe you should contact the author.

(sorry for the late reply)
I asked to the rox mailing list. They say that the problem is probably due to
the fact that Fvwm closes stdin in the Exec and later rox tries to divert it
to /dev/null. They suggest that Fvwm should do something similar instead of
closing stdin directly.

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