FVWM: xterm from menu under Solaris

From: Peter Billam <pjb_at_ml.csiro.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:36:19 +1100 (EST)

Greetings. This identical issue has been previously raised at least by
   Thuan Tran <thuan_at_webway.jkoss.com> (9aug96),
   Jason Lingohr <lingman_at_parabolis.cyber.com.au> (25jun96),
   Greg Veres <gveres_at_espresso.uwaterloo.ca> (25oct95)
so if someone can come up with an answer maybe it can get into the FAQ ?

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 don't see why xterm should be trying to open /dev/tty in any case...

I'm using /usr/openwin/bin/xterm, fvwm-1.24r, CDE and Solaris 2.5.1,
but the others above have been using all sorts of different versions.

What are we doing wrong ? Hasn't someone got a workaround for this ?

Regards, Peter Billam

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