Peter Billam <pjb_at_ml.csiro.au> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Peter Billam wrote:
> >
> > Xterm will run fine from the command line, but not from the Utilities
> > menu (button 1). It gets a "Error 14, errno 22: Invalid argument"
> > error as a result of trying to open /dev/tty and receiving an EINVAL.
> > I'm using /usr/openwin/bin/xterm, fvwm-1.24r, CDE and Solaris 2.5.1,
> >
> Sorry to bother you folks again; I'm still wrestling with xterm ...
> Some clues which might strike a chord in someone are:
>
> The xterm launched from Xsession by the lines
> /usr/bin/X11/fvwm &
> exec /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -T Xsession -n Xsession -geometry 80x24+10+10 -
> ls
>
> works fine (though I don't see how /dev/tty would be available to Xsession)
> but the xterms attempted from system.fvwmrc in Function "InitFunction"
> by the lines
> Exec "I" xterm -n fvwmrc-1 -T fvwmrc-1 -geometry 80x24+0+0 &
> Wait "I" xterm
> Desk "I" 0 2
> Exec "I" xterm -n fvwmrc-2 -T fvwmrc-2 -geometry +0-0 &
> Wait "I" xterm
> Desk "I" 0 0
This worked for me:
AddToFunc InitFunction "I" Module FvwmBanner
+ "I" Exec xterm -n fvwmrc-1 -T fvwmrc-1 -geometry 80x24+0+0
+ "I" Wait fvwmrc-1
+ "I" Desk 0 2
+ "I" Exec xterm -n fvwmrc-2 -T fvwmrc-2 -geometry 80x24+0+0
+ "I" Wait fvwmrc-2
+ "I" Desk 0 0
> ( I tried with "exec xterm" and just "xterm" - same thing )
> don't work any better than those from Popup "Utilities" by
> Exec "Xterm" exec /usr/openwin/bin/xterm &
>
> However all other X apps work ;-( including Sun's cmdtool ), and xterm
> works from all other Window managers, as well as from the command line
> e.g. from the Xsession xterm above. Has anybody any ideas what's
> not available from system.fvwmrc that xterm needs ? Or is there
> some obscure xterm option or resource which I should be using ?
>
> Thanks in advance, Peter Billam
>
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Received on Wed Apr 02 1997 - 08:57:28 BST