From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19145 invoked by alias); 30 May 2012 14:13:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 19132 invoked by uid 22791); 30 May 2012 14:13:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from Unknown (HELO mail-vc0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 May 2012 14:11:55 +0000 Received: by vcbgb30 with SMTP id gb30so3491048vcb.2 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 07:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.21.174 with SMTP id w14mr14467332vde.24.1338387008865; Wed, 30 May 2012 07:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.193.105] (85-18-126-22.ip.fastwebnet.it. [85.18.126.22]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id by2sm29799111vdb.22.2012.05.30.07.10.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 May 2012 07:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC62A37.8050903@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:13:00 -0000 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with basic startx and xterm - no cursor or focus References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/