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From: razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Anshuman Razdan)
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Subject: Re: Help: xon executed from menus doesn't work
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In-reply-to: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU's message of 7 Jan 91 15:45:09 GMT

In article <9101071545.AA26972@excalibur.lcs.mit.edu> gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) writes:

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   From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
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       Date: 5 Jan 91 03:42:37 GMT
       From: cherny@abacus.colorado.edu (Stacey Cherny)
       Subject: Help: xon executed from menus doesn't work

       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.
       ...

   You are probably not setting up your environment early enough.
   Commands run from window manager menus run in the environment
   that was in effect when the wm started.  In particular, you may
   not have DISPLAY set in that environment.  "xon" needs DISPLAY
   set.

    < Stephen
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YOu may also want to use the -debug option in xon ( in the menu
entry which is probably f.exec "xon -debug ....". Start window
manager from a shell instead of login time (or kill the current
wm and restart) so as to get the out put of xon on the screen. It
should be apparent if you are missing any ENV variables.
--

Anshuman Razdan

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