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From: Richard Engelkemeir <rengelkemeir AT houston DOT oilfield DOT slb DOT com>
Subject: Re: X keyboard not working after re-install
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Jon,

Thanks! I'm back up and running

Richard

Jon TURNEY wrote:

> On 11/10/2009 21:12, Dr. Richard Engelkemeir wrote:
>
>> I ran ccygwin setup to download developer tools for ncurses.
>> It also downloaded uninstalled and re-installed several other packages.
>> I did this while I had cygwin with XWin --multiwindow running and
>> both xterm(s) and emacs (X) running.
>> I got a message about 'being in use' and closed my windows,
>> later using Windows task manager to stop XWin.
>> Since then I've not been able to type in either an xterm or emacs - the
>> menus with the mouse work OK.
>> I also get
>> unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'
>> when I start up for both xmodmap and xrdb.
>> I can bring up xterm or emacs but not type in the windows.
>> xev does show the keyboard.
>> I did have to download xev, which I thought I had before,
>> along with xdpyinfo and xwininfo (again, likely I had them)
>> cygcheck doesn't indicate any problems, with several of the flags 
>> tested.
>>
>> Any ideas on what I can do to get running again - something missing or
>> needing re-installation ?
>
>
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything
>
> Please use the cygwin-xfree list for X related questions.
>


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