On 13/03/2010 21:47, Bob Kline wrote:
On 3/13/2010 1:05 PM, Bob Kline wrote:
I have used X under Cygwin successfully for years. Yesterday I did an
upgrade of my Cygwin installation and X stopped working. After
struggling to get things working again, I decided to just install
Cygwin fresh and start over. Now I can get the X server started
(following the instructions in the Cygwin/X User's Guide, running
/usr/bin/startxwin from a Cygwin shell), but xterm windows that I open
do not respond to keyboard input. I looked at the FAQ and found the
entry (3.2 I upgraded my X server and now I can't type anything into
any X application) which warns against using any older scripts to
launch X, but as noted above, I'm invoking the startxwin binary
directly. Any thoughts as to what could be going wrong, given that
this is an installation of Cygwin and X from scratch?
looking at your cygcheck.out, you have the following variables in your
environment
XKEYSYMDB = '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB'
XAPPLRESDIR = '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults'
XCMSDB = '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt'
XNLSPATH = '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale'
These have probably been set by Microsoft Services for Unix, and as the FAQ
tries to make clear, at least XKEYSYMDB must be unset for keyboard input to
XWin to work correctly (FAQ 3.2 refers to FAQ 8.8)
We used to have something in startxwin.bat to unset this, so I guess it is a
regression that we don't do that anymore.
Following up on my earlier post, I see that although I am able to start
the X server if I invoke /usr/bin/startxwin directly from a Cygwin
shell, that's not *exactly* what the FAQ was suggesting.
I'm not sure if the difficulties starting a server mean you have some other
problem as well.
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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