Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60.
I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced a '\'). Then I realized that the server now expects to find all the config files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Installing a few symlinks fixed all the problems: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11 . Now everything works properly. However, it seems to me that something is wrong with the package installation scripts which should either install all the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, or create the relevant symlinks in this directory.
