Re: Problem with basic startx and xterm - no cursor or focus

2012-05-30 Thread marco atzeri

On 5/29/2012 7:18 PM, Patrick Hogan wrote:

Hi list,

A slightly more pared-down version of a question I've posed previously.

 From a new Cygwin install on Windows 7 running 1024x768 resolution,
compare the result of the following two commands run from a Cygwin
terminal:

startx /usr/bin/xterm -- -logfile broken.log

startx /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 -- -logfile works.log

The first command produces a single unmanaged xterm. No X11 cursor is
visible and the xterm is unable to receive input focus. It is not
possible to anticipate where the cursor ought to be and give the xterm
focus. Unusable.

The second command produces a single unmanaged xterm. The X11 cursor
is visible and the xterm is able to receive input focus. Works as
expected.

This seems to be a fairly fundamental problem, and the placement of
the xterm determines whether the entire X.org session is usable or
not. Does anyone know anything about this problem?

Regards,

Patrick



try using startxwin instead of startx

in addition

xterm -ls /bin/bash should be better for the shell enviroment
in the xterm

Regards
Marco



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RE: Problem with basic startx and xterm - no cursor or focus

2012-05-29 Thread Senseney, Justin (NIH/CIT) [E]

This seems to be a fairly fundamental problem, and the placement of the xterm 
determines whether the entire X.org session is usable or not. Does anyone 
know anything about this problem?

I will only mention that while I am unable to recover from this same problem 
(rebase/reinstalling/different versions has no effect), installing cygwin and 
the latest stable packages does not reproduce this problem on other machines.  

-Justin

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