On 28 September 2010 14:38, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 28/09/2010 13:18, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 28 September 2010 11:31, 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...
Good idea, and that does seem to do the job. Opening a window in that situation seems to work fine anyway though. I guess it goes to some hidden desktop. Can anyone think of a sensible use case for that, i.e. should I make this a warning rather than an error? Andy -- 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
