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From: cherny@abacus.Colorado.EDU (Stacey Cherny)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help: xon executed from menus doesn't work
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Date: 5 Jan 91 03:42:37 GMT
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I've been having a very strange problem with X11R4, xdm,
and xon executed from a menu and would really appreciate
any insights into this problem that anybody may have.  Here is
the problem:

I've defined various commands to be executed from the pop-up up
menus which I've set in my .twmrc (and .mwmrc) file(s).  All
commands work fine, except the ones which use xon.  So if I try
something like 'xon host xterm &' as a command from the menu,
nothing happens.  If I type this in an xterm, it works fine.
Commands with xon which appear in my .xsession file get ignored
also.  However, if I source the .xsession file from an xterm,
those commands work.  This problem does not occur when I'm
running the same setup files under R3 on an Xstation, but only
occurs on displays which have xdm running on them.  The problem
occurs on a DECstation 2100 running R4 and an RS6000 running R3
but also using xdm.  It didn't occur on the IBM 6000 until I
installed xdm.  It doesn't occur on a DECstation which is running
DEC's R3 server and Xprompter.

If anybody has any ideas, I would really appreciate hearing them.

Thanks.