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Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Maarten Vanneste wrote:
>
>> I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens
>> fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly
>> impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot
>> type into the editor, same for emacs.
>
> The problem where the keyboard doesn't appear to work may be caused if you
> have XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB environment variable. The
> startxwin.bat batch file should have been updated to remove this by the
> upgrade, but if you have a different way of starting the server it may still
> be in your environment. If it is, remove it :-)
But rather than relying on my wild guesses, it might be better if you posted
your /tmp/Xwin.log to see if that says anything useful...
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