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On 28 September 2010 14:38, Jon TURNEY wrote:I have a feeling it could be useful someway. Why not a command switch: --allow_null_desktop or something?On 28/09/2010 13:18, Andy Koppe wrote:Good idea, and that does seem to do the job.On 28 September 2010 11:31, Ryan Johnson wrote:Ah yes, that would do it.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.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...
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
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