xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-13 Thread Bob Kline
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?


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Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-13 Thread Jeff Spirko
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Bob Kline bkl...@rksystems.com 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?


 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.  What the FAQ document actually
 suggests is that I start the X server by using the shortcut under Cygwin-X
 on the start menu.

If you see different results from running startxwin from the command
line vs. the icon, you should check to see if you have an old batch
file laying around using commands like these:
  vdir /usr/bin/startxwin*
  which startxwin
Unfortunately, I can't help with your actual problem, but this may be
complicating things.

-Jeff


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Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-13 Thread Bob Kline

Jeff Spirko wrote:

 If you see different results from running startxwin from the command
 line vs. the icon, you should check to see if you have an old batch
 file laying around 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I looked again for any old scripts which 
might be found by the shell, but there aren't any.  The difference in 
behavior may be accounted for by the fact that the shortcut doesn't 
actually have the same command line as is recommended by the users' 
guide, which advises running simply /usr/bin/startxwin from a Cygwin 
shell.  The command line used by the shortcut is instead:


C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe

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