From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22126 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2003 23:41:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22105 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 23:41:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO esds.vss.fsi.com) (66.136.174.212) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2003 23:41:53 -0000 Received: from eos.vss.fsi.com (eos [198.51.27.61]) by esds.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id hBANfrP15383; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:41:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (ford@localhost) by eos.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBANfqW22674; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:41:52 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:32:00 -0000 From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails In-Reply-To: <000501c3bf73$844a6c40$0b7b2852@leper> Message-ID: References: <000701c3bf64$f335ccd0$0b7b2852@leper> <001101c3bf6d$26dbb7e0$0b7b2852@leper> <000501c3bf73$844a6c40$0b7b2852@leper> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00214.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > > No, you don't need to. Just Xwin.exe -nolisten local. > > Thank you. This worked just fine. I take the point about Google-ing - that's > how I learned that diverting tmp/XWin.log might help. I didn't see the > "-nolisten local" advice ... > I found both in the same message, although it is older than I stated: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00165.html > Just one final question: when I get into rxvt after "XWin -nolisten > local -multiwindow &", the keyboard suddenly becomes USA, whereas it is set > (correctly) to UK otherwise, within bash, within rxvt and for that matter > within Windows. In this case, when I exit rxvt back to bash, the UK keyboard > is recovered. > I think the message listed above has another hint for you about this :). > Does the "-nolisten local" switch impose some kind USA default, as it would > indeed appear to do? > No, not related at all. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444