If urxvt is run with a -e option which has a pipe (|) in it, it doesn't work. I tried taking the exact command that didn't work in urxvt and changing the urxvt to xterm and it worked great. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.echo 'hello' > test 2.urxvt -e 'cat test | less' 3. Actual Results: A urxvt window appeared and before doing anything, closed itself, or crashed, not sure which. Expected Results: A urxvt window should have stayed open with the word 'hello' displayed in it in less. This same bug happens with urxvtc. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:30:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mmmx -msse -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mmmx -msse -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/" LC_ALL="en_CA.utf8" LINGUAS="en en_GB zh_CN zh_TW" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bittmp X a52 aac aalib acpi agg alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol amr apm asm audiofile bash-completion bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr chardet cjk cli console cracklib crypt cups curl dga dio directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread editor elibc_glibc enca encode estraier examples exif fastbuild fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gcj gd ggi gif gimpprint glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 html iconv icq idn imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse insecure-savers ipv6 isdnlog javascript jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k kernel_linux kqemu libedit libsamplerate libwww linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_zh_CN linguas_zh_TW lm_sensors m17n-lib mad matroska mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mmx mng modplug motif mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musepack ncurses net nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl php png portaudio posix ppds pppd print python qemu-fast quicktime rar readline real reflection scim sdk sdl session sharedmem shorten sid slang sndfile sounds source speex spell spl sse ssl stroke subtitles svg svga tcl tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff timidity tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l2 vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia videos vidix vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma wmf xanim xine xml xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Try w/ rxvt-unicode-8.1 please.
Same behavior. First run the urxvt window appeard shortly before closing. Further tries fail to show window.
