Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

[Jeff Spirko <spirko at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Bob Kline <bkline@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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